Monday, March 22, 2004
Made live home page changes for Instructional Facilities. Made spring schedules live, sent out notices. Learned what SKU stands for (or means) in reference to ordering products—stock-keeping unit. Tried to figure out educational pricing for Adobe products—it's very confusing. So much so that I had put off a purchase for over 6 months because I couldn't figure it out. Is anyone from Adobe reading my journal? Installed a new Wheel Mouse Optical for Ena, whose mouse went bad last week. Lunch with Melissa at Minh Tri—noodle soups, since it was a rather cold day today. Chris C's laptop: still unsuccessful getting it joined to the domain. Organized the kitchen drawer and the workroom cabinets with plastic organizer boxes from Cyberguys. Dinner at home with Patrick: chow mein noodles with asparagus and basil. Black forest creme brulee for dessert! It's divine! Shopped after-winter sales online, bought some clothes for me and Patrick at The Gap and Macy's. My brother-in-law Rob suggested I try Skype, an Internet telephony product made by the people who made Kazaa. After reading a number of mostly positive reviews and deciding I was going to try it out, I had to hunt down headphones with a mic, but I finally found a pair and then downloaded and installed the software and registered under the username frankfarm. Got Rob's contact info from the directory. And that's it. Nothing happened since Rob wasn't online and I didn't know anyone else who had it installed. I thought I could try this out with my pal Chris De Lay in Honolulu, but I don't know if he even owns a computer with Windows. I can't try it with Tina in San Diego coz she's still on dialup and I'm not sure if she'd be willing to deal with the typical hassle that Internet telephony is. Anyhow, if you wanna try it out, give me a ring. As mentioned on March 14, the ATI Remote Wonder II wouldn't work for me, so I sent a request for help to ATI.