Birthday Festivities Update
Oct. 3rd, 2006 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abbandonoBirthday planning is running apace. Final plans for the mellow moon-festival outing are set - we'll see the moon festival from 7-9pm on Sunday, followed by drinks/dessert at Capitol Brasserie. I've e-mailed most of you who are in Austin, but leave me a comment if I've forgotten you and we'll get you set up.
The other party is proving a difficult task to complete, and may have to be postponed, but for now I'm remaining optimistic and forecasting a surreal fantasia for Saturday, October 14th.
Finally, I just have to rant about the state of online inviting. There are so many great "2.0" apps out there for things like photos (flickr), life-management (43things), media consumption (allconsuming), etc. I just cannot believe no one has risen to give Evite the smackdown. There are many sites in closed beta, but nothing decent that I can actually use. And Evite seems to no longer have the nifty feature they once had where you could print a paper invitation with a code people could use to add themselves to the list. What the hell? Why discontinue that? It's precisely what I need...a URL I can post everywhere on other social networking sites, and hand out on paper invitations, but still collect RSVPs all in one place. Grrrr.
So, my apologies for using Evite for this. I've been trying for 3 days to get a PHP/MySQL solution working on my domain, but there have been a hundred tiny obstacles and my ISP has been very little help. In an ideal world, you would have been presented with something far more sophisticated, cool, and friendly.
The other party is proving a difficult task to complete, and may have to be postponed, but for now I'm remaining optimistic and forecasting a surreal fantasia for Saturday, October 14th.
Finally, I just have to rant about the state of online inviting. There are so many great "2.0" apps out there for things like photos (flickr), life-management (43things), media consumption (allconsuming), etc. I just cannot believe no one has risen to give Evite the smackdown. There are many sites in closed beta, but nothing decent that I can actually use. And Evite seems to no longer have the nifty feature they once had where you could print a paper invitation with a code people could use to add themselves to the list. What the hell? Why discontinue that? It's precisely what I need...a URL I can post everywhere on other social networking sites, and hand out on paper invitations, but still collect RSVPs all in one place. Grrrr.
So, my apologies for using Evite for this. I've been trying for 3 days to get a PHP/MySQL solution working on my domain, but there have been a hundred tiny obstacles and my ISP has been very little help. In an ideal world, you would have been presented with something far more sophisticated, cool, and friendly.
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Date: 2006-10-04 12:03 am (UTC)http://www.skobee.com/
Or you could just make all your friends buy Macs, then send invites from iCal. Of course, then people can't see who else is coming, which I suppose is the killer feature of evite.
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Date: 2006-10-04 12:50 pm (UTC)