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Steven Ray — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:48 +0000

Syncing Google calendar with iCal

Steven Ray — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:22:15 +0000

I wish setting up a Google calendar in iCal was simpler and worked better but unfortunately it pretty much sucks ass. I’ve waisted countless hours with my team trying to get this to work well, or work at all. There’s a few different ways you can set it up that seem to start working but as for my own experience it’s never reliable.

I finally broke down and bought a subscription of Spanning Sync so far it’s working well for me. From time to time I’ll see a duplicate but at least it’s on my calendar and accurate. Until iCal comes out with an update that will support Google Calendar or vice versa I’m going to stick with Spanning Sync.

I looked around for a promo code and it took a while to find one so if you’re going to buy spanning sync I’d be more than happy if you used my promo code. It will get you $5 off and it will also get me $5 off my subscription.

Spanning Sync 3 promo code: DHQNWN

I guess I do need to update more often.

Steven Ray — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:37:07 +0000

Thanks Cone for pointing that out.. :)

Project 52

Steven Ray — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:12:56 +0000

If you’re already familiar with the title of this post than you know project 52 is a project created by Anton Peck as a challenge to write a blog post once a week for 1 year, or 52 weeks. I saw Anton’s tweet some time ago but thought to myself, “Man, I’m not signing this I’ve had hard enough time trying to think of something decent to write about in the past two years.. once a week ain’t gonna happen.” I couldn’t commit. It sat on my mind a bit and I started thinking of why it was so hard for me get motivated to write something. It’s not that I don’t want to write [or try to write], I do, I want to improve my communication skills across the board. Something I realized I need to work on. In fact I’m probably going to write about that at some point but I digress. I realized that part of it was that I hadn’t been happy with my site design for quite a while. Not considering my site a priority in my project list, I pushed this p52 challenge to the back of my mind and continued on.

Time goes by and I haven’t thought about p52. I did however go to St. Croix over Christmas and to Miami a week later. While in Miami with my wife Nycole, we meet up with My Cousin (in-law) whom always happens be working on some interesting projects as he’s and his father are both entrepreneurs by heart. So while we’re chatting about books and interweb stuff I say, “Hey you should check out this guy Gary Vaynerchuck, I’ve been wanting to check out his book.” Then it’s in my head. I’ve been wanting a good read and I know a lot of my buddies have read it but I hadn’t really asked how it was. So I sent @cdharrison a DM asking if he thought it was a good read and would recommend it. I think that was my way of justifying a new book purchase while I’ve got 3 or 4 unread books laying on my dresser. He said it was good so I got it. Great read btw. Thanks Chris!

Well in Garyvee’s book Crush It! he kept talking about creating content, creating content, creating content.. So I thought to myself, “Shit, I really have to start posting something!” I get in to the office the following morning and see a tweet from @anton and thought, “Okay now I ready to commit to this thing.”

So here you have it my first post for #p52 and as I haven’t completely figured out what my focus is going to be yet, I’m going to continue to write one post per week. I’m sure it will be somewhat random at best and… well… I’ve never proclaimed to be a poet and I can holy hope that my future posts are remotely intriguing or entertaining.

Thanks go out to Anton Peck & Gary Vaynerchuck for the inspiration to balls up and start posting.

Let me know what you think. I would also love your feed back on any post. If I’m writing or posting something that you think is nonsense or just lame, Let me know!

Galactic Mail by Asterokid

Steven Ray — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:10:38 +0000

Future box…

Steven Ray — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:02:19 +0000

Great idea! I’d love to see a pizza franchise utilize this, I think they could get a lot of publicity.

Vendor client relationship…

Steven Ray — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:39:48 +0000

By no means does this sum up my client experiences, however I have run into this scenario on more than one occasion. Great video. :)

(via @nickf)

I love you too…

Steven Ray — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:09:37 +0000

It killed me today to hear my mother get so upset because she couldn’t say “I love you too.”

She had a stroke last week and is currently in a rehabilitation hospital.

American Ruse

Steven Ray — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:00:33 +0000

One of my favorite bands and happened to be good friends of mine from high school. Unfortunately they’re not making new music together. They’re album still gets rocked the fuck out in my headphones. I hope you enjoy.

American Ruse
Hitchhike to hell.

Day ‘N’ Night

Steven Ray — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:39:18 +0000

Kid Cudi