I stum­bled upon Meetup.com while look­ing for some local groups that matched my inter­ests. I noticed that each group has its own cal­en­dar. Since I hack Google Cal­en­dar, I was won­der­ing how to get a Meetup cal­en­dar on Google Cal­en­dar, rather than man­u­ally adding events by hand. Here’s how…

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I was a big fan of Tril­lian because dur­ing my 15 year his­tory of using the internet—it’s even longer if you count my bulletin-board days—I’ve acquired mul­ti­ple IM accounts from dif­fer­ent providers. I’m in the process of tran­si­tion­ing my mul­ti­ple com­put­ers away from pro­pri­etary OSes that aren’t nec­es­sar­ily worth the money spent. (That’s not to say there aren’t OSes worth pay­ing for.) How­ever, since Tril­lian is plat­form depen­dent, it was out. I needed a multi-network IM client that would work on mul­ti­ple plat­forms. Enter Pid­gin. It fit all my needs, except…

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