I occassionally get an e-mail from someone saying “that item on your calendar is off by a few hours.” This seems to be a ‘feature’ of Google Calendar that it adjusts for the timezone it thinks you’re in. If you have your computer’s OS set to the wrong time zone, things start getting wierd. This…

I’m happy to say that a couple of folks have signed on to maintain specific meeting sets on the calendar. I don’t think we’ve hit the point of sustainability yet, but it’s enough to keep the experiment going. We’re still looking for calendar maintainers. If you have a few free minutes, just e-mail me at…

I had an e-mail from a reader who’s having trouble following all the acronyms we drop into our conversations. He has to Google some of the terms we use. I’m afraid I’m probably as bad as anyone else. So if you’re talking about TPAC, a CAC or some ROW, try to spell it out the…

I’ve stopped commenting as the user counter breaks through various levels here at Portland Transport, but I wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on one less visible milestone. This is post # 1001. The rest of you have added just shy of 8000 comments to those 1000 posts.

At the beginning of the month, we launched our own transportation policy meeting calendar, in response to feedback from our reader survey that it was the most beneficial of several potential extensions to the site. However, when we launched it, we also made it clear that it had to be a group project, spreading the…