I’ve been tinkering with Event Calendar 3, a great WordPress iCalendar server plugin so I can easily serve up important community events to my neighbors. Part of this is testing it with various calendar clients like Exchange. Since I don’t have Windows running anywhere in the house, I thought I’d try the next best thing: Kelly’s Mac with Microsoft Entourage 2004 installed.

Entourage suffers from Microsoft’s peculiar habit of putting all its eggs in one basket. All Kelly’s email, events, tasks, and contacts live in one big file called (wait for it!) “Database.” If anything happens to that one file, you’re screwed. Back to that in a moment.
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