Thursday, January 17, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Met with student MM: Lexi-Comp install, handheld wireless setup, questions about backing up data from handheld to laptop. Prepared for a meeting. Lunch with Eric at The View (the building's cafe) at Laurel Heights. Chatted briefly with Jeff M then a bit later with Julie B. Met with Rob, Susie, and Eric about the digital library position we're trying to hire. Things take so long at the university—our new expected hire date is early March, but at least we got confirmation that we could hire someone for 6 months. Debrief with Susie in The View. Eric and I headed to the shuttle stop to return to Parnassus, and Rob ends up giving us a ride since he's headed that way anyhow. Worked on Snuffy, the code name Eric chose for one particular section of Big Bird. Snuffy is short for Snuffleupagus—we have trouble spelling and pronouncing it. Changed UPS batteries for Cindy and Alyssa. Home. I set up two Belkin surge protectors. Dinner at home with Patrick: Mollie Stone's crab cakes, penne in cream sauce with herbs. Watched the pilot episode of All American Girl starring Margaret Cho on DVD (public library) with Patrick. It had a few good laughs but was mostly weak and poorly written. (Sorry, Margaret!) Watched nearly all the commentary for the pilot episode. Tried setting up the longer Firewire cable I bought yesterday, but it's still too short. Copied HSK file settings for HTML-Kit to my USB drive to take to work. Set up e-mail URL redirects for Danny's website. Did some catching up on and organizing of e-mail. Flickr posted Flickr Uploadr 3.0.3 yesterday—maybe this will fix the problems I've been having. I haven't been able to upload any photos for 4 days. Yes, Flickr Uploadr 3.0.3 enabled me to upload the set that failed to upload the past 4 days, but I still got a weird script error at the end of it. Uploadr is still not working perfectly, I think, and I predict there will be another update soon. Found an ambiguous usability problem in Uploadr 3.0.3—will post it to Flickr later. Must wake up early tomorrow for an early meeting at Mission Bay. (Well, early for me.)