Duh!

[swestrup]

I'm still on my first coffee this 'morning' so I suppose I can be excused a certain amount of brain-deadedness. I was just reading my email and taxlady had forwarded an event invitation to me. The URL that Google provided for the event was something like 1000 characters long. (Consisting AFAICT of multiple 128-bit tokens. Come on, that's excessive! ONE would be enough to identify a given invite for a given event.)

Anyway, the URL is being displayed as plain text in Thunderbird, and I'm laboriously trying to highlight the entire thing, while scrolling the window sideways to be able to access both ends of the string, and grumbling about how any decent computer interface should handle such a thing better, when I notice that Thunderbird has put a notice at the top of the screen saying:

  'This email contains a Google invite. [Accept] or [Reject] ?"

So, all I actually had to do was hit a button, and it got added to my calendar. I wonder which add-on I have did that for me? In any case, I'm grateful.

Comments

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Every time I need to pass on a similarly-formed URL, I try to strip out the tokens one by one until it fails. Most of the time, I can cut it to half or so.