Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Link checking. Made some corrections to the CD-ROM software chart. Lunch at desk: chicken burger, fries, and onion rings from the hospital cafeteria. I know I said "never again" about that place, but I'd gone too long without lunch due to having to meet with Cindy and Steve about the new office buildout and the hospital cafe was convenient. Spent 2 hours dealing with Kraig Kluba insisting that mail records be added to the DNS record for our pharmacy.ucsf.edu domain either today or tomorrow. No one I knew had been notified of this change, and neither Julie Bernstein nor Charles Koehler were comfortable with the hasty plan, so I had to make phone calls and send e-mail inquiries and requests for authoritative action. Rob Duca and Susie Levings were both on vacation, and neither Cindy nor Chris had heard of these changes, so I sent e-mail to and left a message with Dean Koda-Kimble. Turns out Kraig decided to not hijack our domain thanks to steadfast efforts by Julie Bernstein and Jeff Miller. But because of that, I ended up staying at work until 7:30 PM to finish the final layout of the mini kitchen in our new offices, since I'm a little behind on providing her with those drawings due to the Blaster worm. Printed 3 copies tabloid and left them for Cindy to review in the morning. Dinner at home with Patrick: Boboli pizza with onions, garlic, green bell pepper, mushrooms, red sauce. Spinach salad. Put together a travel expenses chart for me and Patrick staying at Tina's small apartment in San Diego. About $750 for 5 days and 4 nights for everything, but no Zoo or anything special except one fine meal. No matter—we plan to spend most of our time checking out neighborhoods and rent prices and house prices anyhow. Forgot to call HealthNet to switch primary care doctors. The W32/Sobig-F virus begins spreading today and becomes the fastest-spreading computer virus in history.