Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Oatmeal with cinnamon, brown sugar, and bananas for breakfast. Linkchecking. Staff meeting. Computer maintenance for James: Winamp updates, defrag, scandisk. Answered a question for Mary Anne about how to get an image from our Web site into Powerpoint. Lots of laptop updates. Lunch with Melissa, Ena, and Joel: we took food from the cafeteria to Saunders Court. Laptop maintenance: needed to resolve a problem in which the laptop user is unable to change power settings due to an error message "Power Policy Manager unable to set active policy." Found the answer in Q_20333222 at experts-exchange.com: Log in as admin, open Regedt32, Select the key at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Controls Folder\ PowerCfg" then choose Edit &Permissions, then give Domain Users full control of that key. Did more experimenting with password management software. Researched ultra small USB drives (Pretec's iDISK Tiny and Iomega Micro Mini). Updated current students news. Joel told me the story about the car accident he was in 11 years ago. It sounded traumatic, but he shrugged it off like last season's shawl. I bid on a great balans chair on eBay but someone else outbid me—probably using sniping software—in the last 5 seconds. Aaaugh! Spent the next half hour looking at sniping software. Made 3 kinds of banana bread to take to the office tomorrow: almond, walnut, and chocolate chip. James had been doing banana bread as well lately, so I did cupcake style instead of loaf style like he did. Dinner at home by myself: baked potato with butter and cheddar, steamed broccoli and carrots with cheddar. Watched Voyager Equinox Part 2 of 2.