Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Street gutters magically turned to streams and rivulets overnight. Patrick accidentally fell into a 3-foot puddle, which ruined his morning just before class. Blueberry bagels with cream cheese for breakfast. Helped Melissa with a few final touches on her Win XP upgrade, now all is well. Send Chris C a file he needed from his computer. Lunch in the workroom: canned chicken pot pie soup. Met with Heidi S and Richard T about using the Library's LDAP server for our student database on the Web project. It was a quick meeting—25 minutes—and they have a few things to check out on their own to determine if we can set it up but so far it looks like it's a go. Hooray! James had me restore the Course Work As Part of EAP paragraph on the Transcripts page. I also restored Course Work As Part of EAP and Course Work Not As Part of EAP on the Foreign College or University page, but we didn't make that change live just yet. Link checking. Win XP upgrade for Cindy—no problems. Prepped Kristina's computer for a Win XP upgrade tomorrow. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick's first time making roast chicken the way that Jacques Pepin does—it looked beautiful and tasted delicious. Before and after dinner, we worked on a full-page ad that Patrick needs for Lodestar Quarterly. It shall appear in a forthcoming issue of Ten Magazine—the literary magazine for the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Set up an input method editor for Patrick on his computer so he can type Chinese characters directly into Microsoft Word and other applications without having to use NJStar. The Language Bar button was grayed out and it took me the longest time to figure out how to fix it. After downloading and installing the IME from Microsoft's Web site, I also had to install a new keyboard layout in the Text Services control panel. Once I did and applied the changes, the EN icon appeared in the system tray as expected. Today President Bush announced (essentially) that as long as discrimination is popular you should change the constitution to permit and enforce it. Huh?