Monday, November 27, 2006

Breakfast at Rain Tree Cafe or maybe it's Cafe Rain Tree. Helped Joel with a problem filling out a PDF for reimbursement. Discovered in the process that I don't have access to print in the IRC anymore, sent Rodney a message about how to fix that—we use print charging software called PaperCut and I didn't want to mess up his configuration. Also notified Rodney about a bad-sounding hard drive in one of the computers in his lab and also asked him about restoring an e-mail account for one of our students. Helped student DE with questions about IE7. Helped student MH understand Barracuda spam firewall. Filed a ticket with OAAIS about that student getting a link that doesn't work in a spam quarantine message. Reported to Dell a problem viewing a message in their forums. Sent an item for return back to the stockroom. Reviewed SATE posters work. Prepared supp app for students entering in fall 2008. Did research for a new backup solution. Amazon S3 is compelling, but not quite ready in features yet. For example, that the modified date of backed up files becomes the upload date is a dealbreaker for me. There are a myriad of utilities attempting to become the S3 backup tool of choice, and each of these software tools has requirements of its own—too many layers and points of possible failure for me. And it shouldn't even be this expensive. Cindy announced our new student affairs assistant will start on Friday, and her name is Alyssa. Grocery shopping. Home. Dinner at home with Patrick: pasta with leftover turkey in red sauce, bread and butter. Patrick baked coconut raspberry rum banana bread because I asked him to. Actually, he put it in the oven and went to bed, and I took care of pulling it out at the right moment and setting it on a rack to cool. Worked on Corinna's website. Created a pair of area and inset maps, inserted it, and fine-tuned the maps and directions page. To do: fix the header, fix the nav bar, put a compass on the map, create print stylesheets, send draft summary and questions to Corinna.