Thursday, October 26, 2006
Breakfast: a banana. Photo handling for Susie. Helped Mikey's pal Miles G by posting a note for job help to the GLBT mailing list at UCSF. Helped Esther with Time and Place. Submitted a Remedy ticket regarding a new computer I set up which needed to be added to our OU. Sent Ian agenda items for Tuesday's meeting. SQLyog troubleshooting with Julie. Listserv troubleshooting with student LS. Confluence work. Parallels hung today. I had started using it more today and in between switching from full screen to regular screen Windows XP just hung and it brought OS X down with it. After restarting, I believe the VM was corrupted, so I just deleted it, losing hours of work. Gave Helene and Marilyn feedback on laptop purchases. Lunch: chicken enchiladas from Carmelina's. Dinner at PhilDannyDrew's: hoagie sandwiches with meatballs and mystery meat and assorted veggies. They recently returned from a long vacation in Vietnam and Thailand. They brought back small gifts for us: orange bracelets that say LONG LIVE THE KING to celebrate (the king of Thailand?) as well as a fine weaving. Drew also gave me their crashed laptop to fix (i.e., reinstall Windows XP). I installed Firefox 2.0 on my work computer yesterday. The interface is a little cleaner than before, but the difference is very subtle. I noticed Ctrl+L followed by entering keywords no longer does "I'm feeling lucky" and I don't know why and I don't know where to go looking for the answer. I also noticed my keyboard shortcuts no longer work on my bookmarks page. And each tab now has a close X—I preferred it the old way with the single close X at the far right because I like to click repeatedly in one spot to close several tabs sequentially—can't do that anymore. However, it correctly autodetected and autoupdated all the plug-ins I was using. I don't notice any immediate benefits, so thus far it's not the wondrous experience I had with 1.0.