{"id":3765,"date":"2006-04-14T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/14\/googling-a-dead-horse\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:40:09","slug":"googling-a-dead-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/14\/googling-a-dead-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Googling a Dead Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6664,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260309014042\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 07:42:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 19:56:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 23:48:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 04:40:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 08:28:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 08:28:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6665,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/googleblog.blogspot.com\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/its-about-time.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260219070454\\\/https:\\\/\\\/googleblog.blogspot.com\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/its-about-time.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 07:42:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 23:48:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 04:40:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 04:40:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6666,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/calendar&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain irony in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/its-about-time.html\" title=\"Google Blog: It's About Time\">new<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\" title=\"Google Calendar\">Google Calendar<\/a> supporting the iCal standard for calendar sharing and distribution (named, unsurprisingly, for Apple&#8217;s iCal calendar application) when &#8212; as usual &#8212; they don&#8217;t yet support the standard Mac web browser.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/04\/graphics\/gcsafari.jpg\" height=\"210\" width=\"448\" alt=\"Google Calendar in Safari\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why I even bother checking, really &#8212; this has been the pattern <em>every time<\/em> Google&#8217;s unveiled something new and shiny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DL.A. Style%2526songTerm=James Brown Is Dead (Take Outs)%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'James Brown Is Dead (Take Outs)' on the iTMS\">James Brown Is Dead (Take Outs)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DL.A. Style%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'L.A. Style' on the iTMS\">L.A. Style<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DL.A. Style%2526albumTerm=James Brown Is Dead%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'James Brown Is Dead' on the iTMS\">James Brown Is Dead<\/a><\/em> (1991, 0:55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a certain irony in Google&#8217;s new Google Calendar supporting the iCal standard for calendar sharing and distribution when &#8212; as usual &#8212; they don&#8217;t yet support the standard Mac web browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}