08-09 Sharks Schedule (or converting .csv to .ics)

Posted by Synfinatic on November 4, 2008 at 3:07 pm in /dev/random.

Every year I end up manually inputting the entire San Jose Sharks schedule into iCal because the Sharks organization doesn’t provide an industry standard .ics file (instead they support Microsoft Outlook). This year, I finally decided to figure out how to convert the .csv file to .ics.

Anyways, long story short, if you’re looking for a schedule of the San Jose Sharks in .ics format you can download it here.

But here’s how you can convert any Outlook compatible .csv calendar export into .ics:

Download/export the .csv
Login to Google Calendar
Create a new Google Calendar under Settings->Calendars (I called it “San Jose Sharks”)
In the left side tool bar, under “Other Calendars” choose Add->Import Calendar
Choose the .csv file and the new “San Jose …

Tags: calendar, csv, ics, sharks

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Ticketmaster is more evil then I thought

Posted by Synfinatic on April 15, 2008 at 10:26 am in Rant.

So here’s the email I sent to my season ticket holder account representative:

Hi [name redacted],

I’m very upset at what can only be seen as deceptive business practices by the Sharks partner, Ticketmaster against their best customers- season ticket holders.

My wife and I are going to be out of town for Thursday’s game so I went to sell our tickets last night on the Sharks Power Play Ticket Trader. Here’s what I finally figured out this morning:

1. Tickets I sell aren’t actually sold at the “posting price” which I enter, displayed on the confirmation page or in the confirmation email. After looking for 5 minutes, I can’t find anywhere in the process where Ticketmaster actually states the actual dollar …

Tags: sharks, ticketmaster, tickets

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