Thursday, April 7, 2005
Granola for breakfast. Joel brought in some tasty buns from Sunset Bakery for the office. Cindy, Joel, and I met to discuss an optional web message board for entering students. Based on their requirements, we're going with a closed Yahoo! Groups group. It helps that Joel has owned a group of his own for over a year, so he's well familiar with the moderation and admin tools and settings. We pretty much just have to choose colors, a home page photo, and then get a feed from James of the e-mail addresses we plan to invite. Filed a problem report with ITS—there's a partition that's out of space. Reviewed Chris's notes about PDAs in preparation for content for the website. E-mail migration issues and followup. Rodney got me admin access to the AD accounts for our students, so I spent a few minutes updating display names to match what students really wanted, e.g., Steve instead of Stephen. Julie reported that she thinks she resolved our application/pdf filetype problem, and I tested, and it seems okay. Lunch: Panda Express. My fortune: You are next in line for promotion. A student mentioned again that the computer in the student lounge wasn't working, so I checked it out, and Chris R at Dell Chat quickly ordered a service technician to replace the motherboard. Returned a student's laptop. Created and posted a sign for Joel for the cleaning staff. Dinner at home with Patrick: baked lemon chicken.