Calendar solutions: making one?

Calendaring is the bane of an active person and particularly, an active poly person. So, let's do something about this!

(1) What online calendar solution are you using?
(2) What features would you want in a calendar solution?
(3) What problems have you run into with your existing calendar solutions?

Unless there is a really great, free or affordable solution (and there wasn't last time I checked), I'm thinking that we should create a paypal account to accept donations, and then use those donations to pay someone in the community to MAKE something that can fulfill all our needs. Because this is a constant irritant in my life, and I'm sure it is in the lives of other poly folk as well.

Here's what I would want:
(1) Syncs with iCal for Mac
(2) Syncs with whatever the default calendar is on Windows
(3) Syncs with Palm's calendar
(4) Possible to create and subscribe to group accounts say, for a yoga studio or local queer community centre. Maybe there could also be public events. When you're adding a public event to your calendar, you'd just have to search for its name, and select from the list that showed up the one that is what you were looking for. If it isn't there, you can add it yourself! Public events would be editable by anyone.
(5) Easy interface for viewing just your own calendar, or your friends and/or group calendars. For instance, can be turned off with the click a button... perhaps a "include all" button, an "include none" button, a default view (which can be set to include just your own calendar, or yours and your primary, or whatever), and then a list of checkboxes for those friends you wish to have included.
(6) Personalized colour coding (ie. we can select the colour coding for our calendar)
(7) Enter the address properly and it automatically generates a link to google maps
(8) Optional event reminders via email and/or alarms
(9) Personalizable settings for when you sync with external programs (ie. you can decide if you want just your own stuff included, your group events, or what included in the sync)
(10) Standard calendaring features included in Palm and Yahoo Calendars

A problem example:
With group events, like say a monthly event, some people want it in their calendar view but may or may not attend. Others want it in their calendar and are DEFINITELY attending. It is annoying to view multiple calendars and have the same event show up two or more times, but there needs to be some way to indicate that yes, Sally is going to the munch for sure and is not available at that time.

Solution ideas? When adding any event to your calendar or to the list of events/groups you subscribe to, you can select it as "informational" or "definite." Then there should be an option to change it for any given instance of that event from "informational" to "definite" or vice versa, and when you do so, you should be able to say that this change is just for this one instance of that event, or that it is for all future instances (or all instances period). So when Susan views her calendar + Sally's, the munch should show up as an event Sally is attending, but it should not show up again as an event Susan might attend, because it is already on there once. Now if they also are viewing Bruce's calendar, and he is also definitely going to the munch, it should show up again to show that he is going. Or, the calendar could say, Munch: Sally and Bruce, thus saving space.

Thoughts?
x-posted to polyamory

Hamilton peeps (and other nearby folks)

Easter weekend plans to travel did not go through due to a lack of crash space. So.

I'm LONG overdue for some kind of "goodbye hamilton" event in the Steel Donut. Karaoke, or a picnic at the park, or something.

Gaming peeps:
How would you feel about me doing my thing Thursday night of that week instead of gaming? We'd all still get to hang, just not game.

Everyone else:
Which could you do? Thursday evening, Friday afternoon? This is April 13 and 14.

Toronto folks:
Would any of you be desirous of visiting Hamilton for this?

What to read next!

I've just finished Ethical Slut, I'm 2 pages from finishing The Courtesans, and I'm about half done with Pagan Polyamory. It's high time for some fiction, I figure. The question is, what to read?

[Poll #700029]

Also, ( Apparently, I'm a nymph )

An eventful day: Actually relevant, important news in my life

Item 1: Digital Hub loves my work, and will keep on watching the numbers on the website to see if there is enough interest to increase my output on the blog.

Item 2: Digital Hub would like to run a news bytes type thing in their monthly magazine, culled and edited from the last two weeks of blog posts before the editorial deadline. For editing these into print format, I would get an additional $100, which puts my income at between $350-600/month from this gig. Sweet!

Item 3: I had my review, and it was all positive. While they still feel that my communication skills need work, they feel that I have made progress and improved. They also are happy with the essentials of my work (the writing and editing), and feel that that is getting better all the time. Finally, they've noticed me taking the initiative with projects that improve the bulletin.

Item 3.5: Both the outgoing CEO and one of the longtime employees have acknowledged that my supervisor, Janice, is super slow at editing. And the longtime employee described her as not being good at making things sound better. "She's good with periods and commas." Heh. Sort of. Looks like they're coming around to my assessment of the situation...

Item 4: I got a raise, but it was small. Only 2%, which is actually less than inflation. This is almost half that of my friend's. I'm not sure why that might be. Could be because they prioritize him as more important because he's been there longer, or it could be because it is a raise retroactive to when I'd only been there for 10 months, or it could be simply that they are not as happy with me as they are with him. But, a raise is a raise is a raise.

Item 5: The only bad thing today... "Congratulations, Danae, you're writing/editing the content for a publication to be printed and distributed in June, with 24-32 pages of content, and another with 40+ in December. In addition to your normal duties, of course."

Item 6: I really, truly had my appointment with the PCOS specialist. And she has confirmed the diagnosis: I definitely have PCOS, for any of you who doubted.

( nitty gritty medical details )

Item 7: I dropped by CAYA and returned the vibrator. They refused to sell me another, but instead gave me a store credit, because they don't want to sell anymore Sinnfluts until they can confirm one way or another if they are waterproof, boilable, etc.