Holiday's
Submitted by bluelaurels on Wed, 2007-08-15 06:55.
I remember some of my old planners having a sheet of all the holidays and their dates.
Would that be hard to draw up for 07 and 08 etc.?
Anyone up to the challenge?
~laurels
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Holiday list
This site has a list of the US holidays. Wouldn't be hard at all to combine with the widget kit. (I'd do it but the templates I've done for myself come out with all sorts of weird margins and spacing)
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Other lists
For anyone looking for holiday/events dates some of the iCal sharing sites might be worth a visit. The one I've looked at most is iCalShare but it's too Amero-centric for this European. The WikiPedia entry on iCalendar (the ISO/IETF standard for sharing calendar data) has some other sources for calendar files. A little bit of perl programming would extract the data into what ever input format is needed. The WikiPedia entry points to an Apple web page that includes some sample perl code.
International Holidays
I like those lists too ... my current planner (filoFAX Time Management) includes a lists of holidays in various countries. Their lists aren't exhuastive.
They include three overlapping lists. Unfortunately printed on two pages. The presentation includes other useful information too, such as capital city, currency, time difference, international dialing codes, and the national holidays. The reverse of this sheet includes "Notable Dates", which are the national holidays in the UK, Ireland, US and Canada. The third list is for the EU in the same format as the international list.
Collecting this information has become somewhat easier. WikiPedia has a summary list and then whole bunch of "public holiday" entries. For the UK there are two government websites; the DTI for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Scottish Executive for Scotland. Both the UK sites give the dates until 2010.
One thing missing from filoFAX Time Management refills, which I recall being in the conventional filoFAX refills, is a list of religious holidays. I work with people who observe a variety of religions (including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddism) so I need to know when they are likely to be off participating in religious events.
Cool!
Yeah! I like those. And I like the reference pages in the back. The math equations and general info REALLY come in handy when I'm having a brain-fart in classes.
I don't think they sell them seperately, and I'm not about to buy a new planner when I've already made my own best-planner-ever.
Wonder where I could find THAT.
-Laurels
An obvious choice?
WikiPedia? or WikiVersity? or WikiBooks? Depending upon exactly what equations you are looking for. Could even copy them from your text books. Once you have located the formulae specific to your major create you own reference lists for inclusion in your own planner.
However, there is a problem. Once you get beyond e=mc2 or V=IR you're going to need something capable of setting maths. Microsoft Word's equation editor just ain't going to cut it. (Neither sadly will OpenOffice.org's equivalent in Writer.) But you could use TeX, the typesetting setting system developed by Prof Don Knuth at Stanford Univseristy. (If you already use Word's equation editor then you'll know something of TeX maths notation.)
TeX is available for most operating systems. I've used on Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5 systems in the past. Now I use it on Linux and Mac OS X.
Once you've compiled your lat-hund of equations you could typeset it with TeX and add the necessary pages to your planner. As an aside until I started playing with the open source DTP package Scribus I was contemplating using TeX to create my own planner pages.
Derivations
e=mc2, V=IR, f=ma
Everything else is derived. Blegh, college.
TeX
Do you have any TeX templates? I'm new to the DIY planner thing, but a huge LaTeX fan....