Friday, July 13, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Steaven's last day at the OSACA. He brought in bagels and cream cheese from Katz to share. Organized tasks in Outlook. Archived receipts and other documents. Unpacked USB extension balls, set one up for Scott. Unpacked Bluetooth adapter. Organized filings for reimbursements. Linkchecking. Chatted with someone at surplus about selling equipment—we're not allowed to even if we return the money back to the unit. Configured a new computer for me, sent it to Susie for approval. Lunch: salad from the cafeteria. Flickr group management. Began coding an HTML e-mail to our entering students. Migrated Carol to her new computer. The old one was a Dell Optiplex GX240 (1.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4). The new one is a Dell Optiplex 740 (2.6 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+). Set up Carol's new computer. It took about 90 minutes. The hardest part was that Microsoft Files and Settings Transfer Wizard did not pick up Firefox settings and bookmarks. When I tried using MozBackup, it wouldn't work—it appeared to have problems saving to a network drive and there is a consistently reproducible problem in which one must force quit MozBackup in order to keep working with your computer. MozBackup is amateur and buggy; I uninstalled it immediately. Hand-migrated Fx bookmarks as well as ForecastFox settings. Photo shoot with student TD. Met with student PT to review orientation web pages.