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AlisonW

Diary matters

2020-01-13 17:40:49 - by alisonw Open Design Software Privacy

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/why-i-make-my-work-calendar-public/

I've kept my calendar online since around 2003, forward events publicly available throughout. Initially it was file-based with a two appointment records per day* in a text file per month, a few years later moving to a MySQL database, where it still resides. Currently at diary.alisonw.uk the domain has changed occasionally depending on which ones I happen to own at the time (!) and though the Internet Archive says it existed in 2005 their earliest copy - looking very similar to the current edition - appears to be from 2007**.

In the past it's been useful for family, friends, and lovers to check where I am (I used to travel a lot) and for me when booking appointments / finding out what I'm supposed to be doing.

* day, evening
** web.archive.org/web/20070320035249/https://diary.alisonwheeler.com/diary