What's up with July 17th?

July 17th is my birthday too!!! For a long long time i thought that I was the only one with july 17th on my ical then figured out it was standard feature. Still feels special though!

Not only is it MY birthday too (hey, let's start a blog for those of us born on July 17!) but I actually did super sleuthing (calling Apple's PR office) and blogged about it last July 17: "A Birthday Present from Apple"
http://outtacontext.com/life/archive/000301.shtml

Yeah, it's mine too.. cool someone else with the same B-day as me..

I like it because July 17 is my birthday!!!

Also, which this is now relevent...

July 17th is Disneyland's birthday. They opened their doors on July 17, 1955.

July 17th is my birthday, so i always thought that Apple knew that about me, or that it was steve jobs' birthday or something a little more cool. ironically enough my name is steve too, oh well. this makes sense i guess. haha. hope they introduce something cool on my birthday some year in the future. maybe a computer that has my name on it or something amazing, maybe i can get it free on my birthday = )

It's actually not wrong 99% of the time. 364/365 which equals ~99.726027% OR 365/366 in leap years, giving us ~99.726776. . .

. . . Don't give apple more credit than they deserve ;)


You're not accounting for the amount of time per year that the application is open.

That's a shame. They could have done more than what amounts to an ever-visible Easter Egg. Even if iCal isn't running, iCalAlarmScheduler probably is. Why can't that process keep iCal's Dock icon relevant?

I like to think of it as an homage to my dad and (step)mom. It's their anniversary (7/17/2004), and when I showed it to them, they were amused.

snale: rounding to the nearest whole number, 99 is a whole number last time I checked, 99.726776 isn't. He could have been rounding down though to make his post seem more.. not Mathey?