Friday, October 4, 2002
Installed cron for Windows NT so that Sophos will automatically update IDE files once a day. Michael's first day! On Chris's computer when attempting to start PharmAdMIT an error appears: "Cannot locate Visual FoxPro Library"—don't know why this happens yet. Is he missing a VCX file or a FLL file? If so, which one? I don't know. Hats off to whatever programmer decided that I didn't need to know *which* library file was missing. Web meeting with Susie. We spent about 2 hours or so—got a lot done. First lunch with Michael at Nan King Road Bistro. He is friendly and fun to talk to. I'd never known anyone from Nebraska before. He has a boyfriend whose name is Darren who is a graphic designer. Michael left Nebraska when he was 29, but has travelled to a lot of places. He lived in Ecuador for a while. In the hallway at work today I smelled harvest candy corn. After lunch, I worked on the Pharmacy Information Day registration form, which is a few days late in getting online—we've all been very busy with Orientation. The reg form went through 3 drafts with Cindy and Ena before we found something we all liked. Received a popup window with a poem in it. Ena got it, too. It seemed like a virus that somehow sent messages over the local network but I don't know how it did its thing. I did a search on Google on the first few words of the poem and the title of the dialog (I think—I'm typing this on October 5 and relying on memory) and nothing came up. The title of the dialog box was "Messenger Service" and the poem went like this: --- Message from LOKI to [IP address] on [date] [time] / Love must kiss that mortal's eyes / Who hopes to see fair Arcady. / No gold can buy you entrance there / But beggared Love may go all bare / No wisdom won with weariness / But Love goes in with Folly's dress / No fame that wit could ever win / But only Love may lead Love in / / Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896) / / Provide by http://www.ALLprice.info --- Implemented a bunch of web changes that Susie requested: Faculty and Staff page, Programs page, and prepped a new Continuing Education page. Dinner at home with Patrick: he handmade some nouvelle wontons: shrimp and pesto, shrimp and black beans, shrimp and cheese. Leftover pasta. Tried upgrading from ezBoo Web Stats 1.3 to version 3.0, couldn't get it working even after several hours and even after deleting all my old stats tables and installing anew. It's a shame the people who write ezBoo didn't put more error checking in their code and more thought in their installation instructions. I gave up and shall try a different stats package this weekend. This morning Patrick and his agent Mitchell had their final discussion about his novel Second Island. Patrick has a few changes to make, and they plan to send it to publishing houses in the second week of November. Watched 2 Simpsons episodes with Patrick: Computer Wore Menace Shoes (The Island) and Halloween Special 12. They were crazy and perfectly fun. Patrick worked on Second Island.