Thursday, November 29, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Self study work. I couldn't figure out how to quickly and inexpensively make an autorun.inf file autorun a Word document that had spaces in the filename. Documentation from Microsoft is unclear on what does and doesn't work if you have spaces in the filename. Some web pages says to enclose the filename in quotes (aka quotation marks) but I tried this and it did not work for me. I ended up asking if they would accept an 8.3 filename and the answer was yes, so that's what we did. Burned and distributed cdrom masters for review. Lunch: Panda Express. My fortune: You are next in line for promotion. Worked a little on HTML e-mail. Downloaded and uploaded photos for Chris from the office camera. Modified a surplus pickup request. Participated in a free self-defense course provided by Triangle Martial Arts Association which I learned about through the LGBT mailing list at UCSF. Mike P and Jamie F presented a variety of topics over 2 hours, and it included some physical defense techniques. Mary S from CHI was my terrific class partner. The class was very good, and I would recommend it to others. Late dinner at Nan King Road Bistro by myself. I ordered the marco polo dish and it came with the worst scallops I've had in a restaurant in years. They were very opaque instead of semi-translucent but they weren't overcooked—they just tasted awful like they were extremely low quality. I picked them all out and enjoyed the rest of the dish. The shrimp were very tasty. I've had good scallops at this restaurant in the past, so I don't know what's going on.