Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Breakfast: running late, so I had only a short glass of grape juice. Staff meeting with a celebration for Cindy. I baked chocolate chip pumpkin bread, Lucia brought cinnamon pastry bites, Eric D brought pigs in a blanket, Joel brought napkins and cute animal head plates in the style of Arthur, Carol brought a tray of fresh fruit, Shirin brought "puppy chow"—chex mix coated with sugary peanutbuttery goodness, Eric V brought Noah's bagels, Scott brought orange juice. Followed up with Tony T on an A-Z list request from October—he fixed it up after a few rounds of email—just a misunderstanding, I'm sure. Lunch at desk: I got sandwich fixins from the cafeteria and made a bagel sandwich using a bagel left over from the morning's celebration. Eric D and I met with Jann F about how to hook in to MyAccess—a good meeting. 1-on-1 with Cindy. Met with student SK who had a question about an IP address conflict. Announced to OSACA staff AB 211 and SB 541 info available on our website. Printed and filed imagery provided by Maria F. Sent my CCD work to the team for review. Reported a weird search problem on the OAAIS website to John K. Reviewed and rewrote a proposed OAAIS communication about the new wireless SSIDs. Chatted with Susie. Helped JWG remotely with laptop troubles he was having at Mission Bay. His experience is a great example of how computer support failed at UCSF. I should write it up. To home. Snack: warm chocolate chip pumpkin bread, apple juice. Dinner at home with Patrick. We had a proscuitto pasta from Trader Joe's called perline—a shape I had never seen before. It's like little bags of stuff. I liked it. Dinner roll, smart balance light, hot water. Watched The Celluloid Closet (1995) on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. I loved this film. It's excellent, and I'm embarrassed that I hadn't seen it sooner. In Netflix, it's really hard to find the place where you can change your profile picture. Currently, it's like this: Visit the home page. In the navigation under the Browse DVDs tab, select Friends. Select Invite Friends from the dropdown menu that appears. Your profile info appears on the right side of the page. Select the Profile link in this section. A profile picture section appears, enabling you to select and upload a new picture. Again, to recap, to change your profile photo in Netflix: Home > Browse DVDs > Friends > Invite Friends > Profile > Profile Picture. It's not where you think it might be—in Your Account > Account Profiles (which is really My Account > Account Profiles). It's also not under the link which is your name, which appears at the top of the page. It's not intuitive to find it under Browse DVDs or Friends or Invite Friends, but that's where the info architects at Netflix have put it. Aside: I wish Netflix had RSS feeds for notes and reviews my Netflix friends have posted. And I wish Netflix pulled ratings data from IMDB because IMDB ratings would be very helpful to see while browsing Netflix so that I can compare it against my pretty reliable threshold of 7.2—essentially all films that rate 7.2 or higher on IMDB are films I like and essentially all films that rate 7.1 and below on IMDB are films I don't like. I love Netflix, but sometimes it feels more like Web 1.5 rather than Web 2.0. You can't search for friends in Netflix like you can in social networking applications like Facebook. Consequently, it's not easy for friends to find each other in Netflix. Aside: In Firefox, I prefer Zoom Text Only (under View > Zoom). I understand why it's off by default, but Zoom Text Only often works better for what I want than when it's off. I also think that "search for text when I start typing" should be on by default, but what do I know? Eric V at work let us borrow his DVD sets of Arrested Development, which I've never seen before, so I guess I'll try it out and see if I like it. Stretches. Weight training: various upper body. Stretches.