Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Met with student TT—laptop maintenance. Another student stopped by to pick up her laptop which was done. Staff meeting. The big news was that Scott was in San Diego on outreach and is coming home early because many of the schools have canceled their grad fairs. He had been staying in a hotel that was also being used as for evacuation housing or an evacuation center. Things are really crazy down there, it seems. Finally received the 10-pin headers that I couldn't find anywhere except mail order. Replaced a 10-pin header on a USB cable—the one that did not work for me had 10 positions but one in the corner was blocked out so I was unable to use it on the 10 pins (2 rows x 5) that were sticking up from the motherboard. The new 10-pin header had nothing blocked—all positions were open. Lunch in the workroom with Joel and Alyssa: turkey sandwich with fat free cheddar brought from home, assorted snacks, water. E-mail management—this 100 MB limit of mail space is getting really annoying. Furniture ordering for Eric. Listserv work. Watched the OS X Leopard video tour. Prepared my orders for Leopard (including one for psychobauble). Gave Tina a heads up about Leopard. Met with Eric. I'm handing over homepage news coding responsibilities to him, and we sat down together while I walked him through my process and I was quite pleased when said no to my question of "Am I going too fast for you?" We also reviewed his linkchecking duties and worked out a solution for the Partners in D site problem of the share script coded by Ogilvy passing a URL to a form—just use HTTP_REFERER instead and handle offsite referrers appropriately. When I got home from work tonight at 7:10 PM the temperature read 69.3 indoors and 74.7 outdoors. Patrick would not be enjoying the weather now if he were here. Dinner at home by myself: cow stir fry with napa cabbage, baby bok choy, parsley, onion, garlic, leftover steamed rice. Watched episode 205 of Heroes on the web. This episode was very good. I particularly liked how the scene in Philadelphia ends—brilliant editing! And I also liked the telephone call that took place inside a vehicle.