Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Morning run: 30 minutes. Usual oatmeal breakfast. I discovered yesterday that I can no longer create Adobe PDF files from within Word. I had recently installed Office 2007, and Acrobat 8 is not yet fully compatible with it, so there is no more Adobe PDF menu in Word like there used to be. Adobe says the workaround is to print to the Adobe PDF printer, but this isn't the same result because hyperlinks in Word documents aren't captured properly using that method. Adobe doesn't plan to have a resolution until June 30, 2007, so I'll be able to continue deployment of Acrobat 8 Pro but won't be able to deploy Office 2007 until July 1, 2007. Encountered the error message "The set of folders cannot be opened" when attempting to get properties on a calendar on which I thought I had owner permissions. Did not resolve this problem immediately. Small calendar updates on the web. Linkchecking. Minor web updates to Acrobat and Adobe links. City CarShare pod maps appear to be broken. XHTML e-mail work for Cindy. Archived documents. Student OM borrowed our office laptop in an emergency. Lunch from the cafeteria: fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn off the cob. Disk encryption research. IPSec research. Tried helping Steaven set up access to ASSIST, got part of the way there after running into problems. Finally got them resolved after he left for the day. Unpacked Chris's Bookendz docking station for his MacBook Pro. It looks sweet and seems to work well. Chatted online with Don Don. His family is recently moving into a new home, and having now understood the value of homeownership, he urged me to buy a house. Dinner at Namu with Mom Ryan, Patrick, and Sam. Namu is a new restaurant owned by one of the students that Patrick and Sam know through Simmone in martial arts classes. The food is excellent and worth the price. Night run: 5 minutes.