Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Student computing committee meeting: special guest Bob Flynn. Bob seems very competent, and I was impressed with his presentation. Gwen helped me out with questions about the tool dentists use to find hidden cavities, giving me some questions to ask: Do x-rays confirm that a cavity exists? Can it be resolved with sealant instead? Staff meeting. Sent James the first draft of the electronic supplemental application. Called facilities to complain that my office is still too warm. They said they would page the person who closed my ticket 5 days ago. Took photos of the dust from the hallway that made its way into my office through the space at the bottom of the door because the air pressure in the hallway is greater than that in my office. They're doing asbestos removal in the construction just outside my office door. I just hope that dust isn't asbestos dust. At the staff meeting Cindy said she would talk with the Environmental Health and Services department to see if they can tell us more about the safety procedures regarding the construction. Chatted briefly with Kraig K to help him get set up for our server migration. Chatted briefly with Mark B to reiterate our need for him and Bruce to get on the ball with e-mail migration presentations—I had sent him and Bruce proposed dates and times a week ago and have heard nothing since then. Cleaned up my address book in Outlook. After importing from Outlook Express from Eudora, it was necessary to remove dupes, resolve mailing list entries, fix up first names and last names, et cetera. Lunch: fish and fries. Assisted Daisy L with a Microsoft Word template created by Laura Myers—the header and logo kept reappearing on page 2 when they didn't want it there. Julie B sent me info for our new web server. Had a great chat with Kirk H about VPN and wireless and PDAs, told him I'd devote a few brain cycles to helping him come up with a workable solution to the problem of providing guidance to the campus community about how to connect wirelessly with a PDA without obligating the university to support every possible PDA device with wireless (because there are too many different configurations).