Friday, November 7, 2008
Usual granola breakfast. I accidentally hit Command+Shift+Y this morning and Stickies opened up. How'd that happen? It's repeatable, too, but Finder must be active for it to work. Maybe it's an undocumented shortcut? Last night's Apache reconfiguration to add curl completed successfully. WeID problem report—why don't our students have access to all perimeter doors 24/7? Helped Scott with PharmAdMIT problems. Over the past week we've had a temp named Rebecca in the office helping out with admissions application processing. Helped a student figure out how to announce a student event—it's actually not an easy process to describe or to perform. Lunch meeting: UCSF Communicators Network with Sarah P. Management work. Followup with student MY about a problem with Sophos. Added code to the admissions overview page to pull in Joel's blog directly to our site. I ended up using code that did not require curl after all. Joel and I reviewed it, then he sent it to Cindy for review. To home. More research to find a replacement for Mozy at home only. Firefox 3.0.3 has been really slow to respond to mouse actions lately, so I disabled Firebug, Operator, and Web Developer and now it's faster again. Dinner at home with Patrick: grilled pig loin, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob. Dessert for me: one XOX truffle. Watched Heroes Season 2 Episode 1 with Patrick on Netflix DVD. I completely forgot that guy with glasses could turn things to gold! Signed up for a free 2 GB account at idrive.com. The client software did not seem to like the 12-character password I used, but I was successfully able to log in to the website using the same password, change it to a shorter password, and then the client software authenticated as expected. Installed CrossOver Pro 7.1.0 for Mac. First thing I installed was Winamp 5.5.4.1, and I was shocked to see the install finish and the player open and the llama soundbite play successfully. Shift+V to fade-stop works, but there are redraw issues with some of the windows. Drawer animation is choppy. Worth further experimentation just to have Shift+V back more native than VMware. (Is it correct to say "more native"? Maybe not.)