migrate calendar from palm desktop to google calendar

I have 9 years of calendar on Palm and think it is time to move to another platform and get a new phone. I tried lots of things to migrate my calendar and contacts, some of which worked partly. For example, I tried Goosync and Softick PPP. The limit there is 999 days of past calendar, though (and you need to phone Goosync and ask for an upgrade to get over 365 days). It ran fine, but 999 days is not enough.

Long story short: CompanionLink did the job for me. I used Palm version 6.2.2 and Windows XP. It made short work of the migration. I had to run it several times to get the whole 9 years, as I suppose I overflowed the buffers, but eventually I got the whole Palm calendar migrated to Google Calendar. Before doing the migration I went through my Palm calendar and limited recurring events to 2 years, maximum. I don't know if that was necessary, but it seemed prudent.

The evening sky

It is to be hoped that we will get a clear evening over the Sea of Abaco this week, for the International Space Station will be visible from the Sea of Abaco every night from February 4 through 7. It is a very bright object that moves rapidly across the twilight sky and is easily seen with the naked eye.

Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday will be very impressive displays. Friday it will be less bright.

It will be visible as follows:

Wednesday the 4^th for 2.5 minutes at magnitude -0.9 (minus 0.9)

Thursday the 5^th for almost 3 minutes at magnitude -1.9 (brighter than Sirius)

Friday the 6^th for 1 minute at magnitude 1.3 (not very bright)

Saturday the 7^th for 3 minutes at magnitude -1.1 (very bright)

Lower magnitude numbers are brighter, so the brightest display will be on February 5, when the ISS is magnitude -1.9. By comparison, Sirius is -1.4 and Venus is about -4

Here are the times, elevations and direction of the flight path:

Date	Mag	Starts			Max. altitude			Ends
		Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.
4 Feb	-0.9	06:23:37 PM	10	N	06:26:01 PM	22	NE	06:28:21 PM	10	E
5 Feb	-1.9	06:50:52 PM	10	NW	06:53:50 PM	65	SW	06:56:46 PM	10	SSE
6 Feb	1.3	07:20:15 PM	10	WSW	07:21:22 PM	12	SW	07:22:29 PM	10	SSW
7 Feb	-1.1	06:11:02 PM	10	NW	06:13:55 PM	47	SW	06:16:47 PM	10	SSE

So, for example, on February 4, the ISS will appear 10 degrees above the Northern horizon at 18:23:37. It will travel from N to NE and disappear 22 degrees above the NE horizon at 18:28:21.

The ISS will next be visible February 14 – 18. For further information, go to heavens-above.com

Mark Anderson

S/V Seabbatical