Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Helped Melissa with bullets printing incorrectly. Restored files from backup for James. Helped Joon Cha with a spyware problem. Our kitchen cabinets got installed today. It's nice. Lunch with Ena, Joel, and Melissa at Nan King Road Bistro. Edited Bill Soller's medical article on emergency contraceptive pills. Created a flowchart outlining the workflow and writing process for our Medicine Question of the Month, sent it to Susie for review. Researched a spammer/hacker issue for Cindy. Fixed a broken link: maps.ucsf.edu/DHCP/ got moved to its.ucsf.edu/information/network/dhcp/ (no redirect). Tested a redirect for Melissa using an offsite network connection. Installed Retrospect Client on Chris's new laptop, backed it up. Sent Carol a zipped, 20 MB copy of our data files for James. Dinner at home by myself: leftovers. Patrick went with Erick to the Anchee Min reading at the library. New computer crashed badly. I think now it's a power supply problem, as that's the only component I haven't replaced yet. Grrrr! I'm letting it cool overnight. When I start it up in the morning, either it will work (temporarily) or it won't work at all. If it works temporarily, then I simply need to replace the power supply, verify there are no overheating problems, and continue on my way. If it doesn't work at all, it means the new hard drive has been completely damaged and several years' work has been lost because I've been unable to get the tape backup to work reliably during these problems. Not a good night for me. See you in the morning!