It just dawned on me. I want Google to do an online calendaring system. Yeah, it won’t solve 95% of my scheduling problems because it won’t have access to behind-the-firewall data and it won’t do the collaboration part of scheduling, but at the least it’ll have a more usable UI than what I’m working with now, and it’ll have some sort of export to standard formats like iCal that will let me fool myself into thinking that the end is near…

Related: how come google search integrates desktop searches but not gmail searches? That seems weird.