Friday, April 11, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Helped Patrick with some computer questions. Legal name change work. SCC work in the wiki. Uninstalled BurnAgain DVD—there is some kind of junkiness going on and it's not possible to determine what the cause of the problem is (see yesterday). Go with what works, and unfortunately right now that means wasting a lot of time with a manual workaround for the lack of the being able to burn data in multiple sessions to a DVD. Zach S from the library responded quickly with satisfactory responses to my question and suggestion for the wiki. I want to use a PageTree plug-in with Confluence. He'll check it out and let me know if it's approved in 2 weeks or less. Checked in with Eamon K about the podcast I'm awaiting. I had been checking the existing RSS feed to determine when he uploaded it, but he uploaded it to a different location and so I didn't know about it for several days. Burned a cdrom with the podcast files and sent it out to someone at Cindy's request. Student help request followup for STOR. Lunch with funcrunch at New Ganges Restaurant (415-681-4355, 775 Frederick Street at Arguello Blvd, San Francisco, California). We were drawn in because they hired people to distribute flyers for the restaurant on Parnassus Avenue—Indian vegetarian cuisine, all you can eat buffet for $6.95. The food was good but not superb. The buffet was poorly stocked the entire time we were there. Service almost didn't exist—we received water once. The man who seated us chided me for trying to get us our own water which I was doing only because several minutes had passed since we were seated and he was still obviously too busy to do it himself. We never received the advertised "free tea with meal." Avoid—it's almost a scam. Chatted with Eric about our homepage project. More wiki followup with Zach S. Chatted with Susie about our Flickr project. Lots of Flickr work. Dinner at home by myself: pasta, red sauce, sausage. Patrick went with Sam to a friend's recital.