Monday, November 6, 2006
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Helped Chris troubleshoot a problem printing to network printers. When I last worked on his laptop I had uninstalled a lot of things and turned off a lot of services to make it run more efficiently. (It's rather old.) I turned on one service that was required for network printing, turned it back on. Helped Cindy resolve a problem finding Excel files in a pick dialog. Met Sue Abby and installed for her the Message from the Dean template and gave her training on using it. Lunch: sandwich from Subway, ate on the steps in the sun. Took a UCSF survey. They said it would take 15 to 20 minutes, but it took me 90 minutes instead. E-mail problem followup for student LS. Spent the rest of the day working on code for the student database on the web project. I made a lot of progress. Home. Worked on Corinna's website. Dinner at home with Patrick: salad and pizza. Bought tickets for Borat on Friday at the new Century theatre in the Bloomingdale's shopping center. Processed and uploaded photos. Reworked level 2 backups to be more efficient and to resolve "access is denied" problem with Iomega Rev Automatic Backup Pro (IABP). I believe the software doesn't let you back up across computers (i.e., a network drive) but I'm not certain—I thought this worked in the past but now it no longer works and I was unable to resolve it even with the latest IABP software and even after recreating the backup configuration from scratch. I worked around it by copying the file over from the other computer using a custom XXCOPY script then IABP would back up the files just fine. Weight training: modified barbell curl, lateral raise. Late snack: cherry yogurt.