Thursday, June 8, 2006
Got a replacement hood badge for my car from Aaron at Stan Carlsen Auto Body, $14. I could have done it myself after watching them do it. Drove to Laurel Heights for a class called Supporting OS X given by Dane Riley—it was mostly review for me, but it's always good to hear Dane speak—he's an expert in all things Apple. I briefly met Tommy from CVRI—we both had to move our cars at the same time out of the 2-hour zone nearby. Gave a ride back to Parnassus to Julie, Alex, and Beth. We met Julia, David H, and John in front of the library and walked to Nan King Road Bistro for lunch. These people are other web developers at UCSF, and I proposed meeting for lunch since we hadn't had regular meetings in a long time (over a year?). It was fun and I think everyone enjoyed it. There was a lot of talk about what CMS people are using or trying out or thinking about. Same thing for image management software (Beth recommends Extensis Portfolio if your people are conscientious about process related to file naming, metadata, etc.). Julie took a lot of photos with her new camera. Computer support coordinator meeting—the shortest one ever—it ended at 3:00 PM. Chatted briefly with Tiki. Sean demoed clientless VPN—it looks pretty slick. Helped Lucia work with a fall schedule in InDesign. Helped Pollyanna check to see if we had any old e-mail from Charles's account (we didn't). Microsoft updates for all office computers—some computers failed to install WGA. On the web, I found a description with a solution involving permissions on certain keys in the registry, but this solution did not work for me. I'll just wait this one out a few days and I believe it will resolve itself with the next WGA update. Scanned in a receipt for archiving. Drove to the Castro, had dinner with Phil and Drew at the Thai restaurant at 19th and Castro. They had been doing laundry at Sit and Spin and had run into Patrick Mendoza ("Colma"). Home. Weight training: bench dips, side plank. Late meal: yogurt, leftover pad thai. Did purchase research online: tires, fire safes. Patrick and Sam went to Madame Butterfly tonight.