Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Breakfast: Patrick decided to use some bananas before they went bad and made banana pancakes with freshly squeezed orange juice. Focus group followup. Sent a correction for UCSF Today to pubaff. Met briefly with Shirin to set up voicemail and train her on using the phone. Strategic plan followup with Susie. Submitted a campus calendar item for student SN (Red Dress Fashion Show). Followup with Cesar on computer setup for Shirin. Shirin e-mail setup followup and notification. More new wireless network testing and feedback. Emergency space planning meeting with Eric D, Sue, Susie, Shannon, and 3 space planner people: 1 from facilities and 2 designers. More wireless network testing and feedback. Chatted with student NS about Mr. Pharmacy. Dinner at home with Patrick: baked chicken, cous cous, steamed peas. Watched Edward Scissorhands (1990) on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Belkin's US website no longer seems to have uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes). (I needed to recommend a backup power supply to someone and checked their website based on my notes from January 19, 2008.) I guess Belkin doesn't make UPS units anymore. Recommended APC instead. I've always hated Belkin's website, anyway. It's often hard to use, and Belkin is not really focused on a great user experience on the web. For a quick OMG, check out their [contact us page][link defunct: http://www.belkin.com/contactus/index.asp]. Which is unfortunate, because Belkin makes a lot of well-designed and always visually beautiful products. The only company to have created a surge protector that left me breathless upon viewing it. Read Peter Bright's Ars Technica review of Windows 7, which is currently in public beta. I laughed when I read, "Microsoft has finally decided that it would be a good idea to have keyboard shortcuts to minimize and maximize windows. No more alt+space, N or alt+space, X menu-based shenanigans—we now have Win+Up Arrow to maximize, Win+Down Arrow to restore or minimize. This is a window management godsend." LOL! How many years from now will we be able to say "Apple has finally decided that it would be a good idea to have keyboard shortcuts to minimize and maximize windows"? We're at 24 years and counting, Apple. If only I could have even the troublesome keyboard shortcuts to minimize and maximize windows in OS X! Oh, for the ability to resize windows in OS X from any edge using either the keyboard or the mouse (like Windows has had for the past 22 years [I believe])! Windows 7 has some nice features that I'm looking forward to, but some do indeed seem simply copied from OS X. And "window management godsend" is a bit strong, I think, and I'm not even an atheist. I'd guess that 99.999% of Windows users don't even know what Alt+Space followed by N does, so although I don't really care that Win+UpArrow and Win+DownArrow now do certain things, I think it's only happenstance that the person reviewing is someone who uses keyboard shortcuts and cares about these new shortcuts. Alt+Space followed by N is more efficient than Win+DownArrow anyhow since your fingers don't need to leave the home row. It doesn't hurt that Microsoft added Win+DownArrow to do the same thing, but it doesn't help very much unless you have an accessibility concern and you spend a lot of your time minimizing and maximizing windows. I'll stick with my more efficient "shenanigans," thank you, Peter Bright. Stretches. Weight training: advanced plank (3:00), advanced side plank (2:00 each side). Stretches.