Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Telecommute day. I forgot to mention yesterday that I also approved a bunch of photos in the moderated Flickr stream which feeds photos to the School of Pharmacy home page. There doesn't seem to be a way for me to get an RSS feed of the photos in the queue awaiting moderation, so I will have to check manually which I haven't been remembering to do. Investigated some new online backup solutions. Most promising seems to be Zoogmo but I would wait for it to come out of beta at least and hear some reviews from the initial users. Sticking with Mozy at home and at work for now. Small web edits: backup, orientation. Read about tripit, plazes, fireeagle, dopplr, compfight, phorm, oix, webwise, wikinear, google static maps api, oauth. Google Maps printing feature got a huge upgrade which I like very much so far. I was a little disoriented at first because there was no warning that the interface had changed, but I kept plodding through my task and found the new behaviors and features useful. I still copied the link from Firefox and pasted it into Safari for printing—I wish I knew whether they yet fixed the bug in which printing from Firefox means your route doesn't show up on your printout. Lately when I try to install an update for Adobe Reader 8.1.2 for OS X, I receive the following error message: "Installation Incomplete. Installer Message: The patch has failed because the application has been modified since it was originally installed (for example, plug-ins may have been disabled). Please go to the Adobe support website for more information regarding how to re-enable disabled components prior to installing the patch. Or, you can uninstall and reinstall the application, and then reinstall the patch. Adobe Reader 8.1.2 Security Update 1 (KB403742) failed to install. (OK)" Solution: Remove (delete) Reader 8.1.2 from the Applications folder, then download and install Reader 9. Lunch: two turkey burgers, tater tots, hot tea. Read about Google Socialstream, Yahoo Mosh. Read about tumblr (again), streem.us, hi5, friendfeed, swurl, sphinn, davidhasselhoff.com (-- a social networking site, who knew?), sweetcron. Signed up to be notified about sweetcron's release, but I am not at all optimistic that it will happen anytime soon. Created text for new door lock signs. Dinner at home with Patrick: gemelli with marinara sauce, dinner roll, Smart Balance Light. Lots of traffic—took nearly an hour to get downtown. Saw The Dark Knight on IMAX with psychobauble, Nate, and Patrick. The film gave me chills right from the beginning and held my interest to the very end. I don't know that it deserves a 9.3 on imdb, but Ledger's performance is indeed disturbingly convincing. Worth seeing again? Yes, perhaps next time not on IMAX. The big screen is impressive, but it doesn't capture fast-moving action well—it's too hard to take in the giant blurs of motion. Late meal: chunky soup.