Friday, July 21, 2006
Small edit on the orientation web pages for one of the student leaders KT. Got info on a laptop that Lorie had donated to the school—it's a PowerBook G3 Pismo circa 2000, not good for anything except possibly some big geek who would want to install Yellow Dog or Xubuntu on it. Apple couldn't meet my ultimatum, so we must leave QuickTime off of our Dell laptop that I'm building. Posted updated schedules for Lucia. Garrett sent a preview for his laptops web page—it looks great. Discovered MailChimp which sounds really excellent—we've been looking for a simple way to send HTML e-mails and it's uncertain whether they will work well through listservs even tho I found in the listserv documentation that it should work. MailChimp makes it sound really easy if you have someone who knows HTML and CSS—and we certainly have that. Similar: ezinedirector.net—will need to check both of these out more later. At lunch, Cindy walked down to Irving Street with me and Joel. Joel and I split off at Pasquale's for pizza and salad, and Cindy continued on to La Fonda to pay for the burritos we ordered a while back for an event. Joel picked up a feather duster at the five and dime afterwards. Met with student LQ, helped her use System Restore to troubleshoot a problem with her laptop playing DVDs and CDs incorrectly. ImageBuilder work. My hypothesis as to the blue screens of death had to do with whether the manual wireless switch was in the on or off position or whether the Ethernet cable was plugged in or not, but I tried all 4 combinations of these variables with no success—every one gave no BSOD. This can only mean intermittent hardware failure with the Latitude D620 they sent us. HTML email research for Cindy. Supp app workshop page redesign for James. Dinner at home with Patrick: roast chicken with potatoes and carrots, bread and olive oil. Afterwards, we walked down the street and got some ice cream. I've been using the Slickr screen saver on one of our Windows computers for a week or so—it's a winner over the previous screen saver we were using from Google Pack. I have it set to the most interesting photos as determined by monkeys—I mean algorithms—at Flickr. I don't know how they pick, but they pick pretty amazing photos nearly all the time. You can set it to a specific group if you want (and there are many other options) but for now I think the interesting ones are interesting. Weight training: push-up, plank. Late meal: leftovers from dinner.