Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Oatmeal for breakfast. Student Computing Subcommittee meeting. Privacy section. Lunch at desk: takeout taco salad (tostada) from Carmelina's. Helped James with computer buying decisions. Dinner at home with Patrick: Seniore's Pizza - mushroom and green bell peppers, Caesar salad with chicken. Did research for Patrick's trip related to his computer—confirmed that he won't need a transformer, printed out the plug adapters he might need, sent him links. Made a currency conversion cheat sheet for him—United States dollars to Chinese yuan—it's currently 1 USD to 8.276 CNY. Did research about calling cards. It's pretty cheap for me to call from San Francisco to him in Zibo—about 6 cents per minute plus a 95-cent surcharge per call using ZoneLD. However, ZoneLD's calling card won't work for him in China. Did time zone research—sent him links to the personal world clock on timeanddate.com, which even had Zibo in its database—cool!