Thursday, April 16, 2009
Cardio warmup: 15 minutes. Weight training: various lower body. Shower. Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Patrick's new computer has arrived! Conference call. 1-on-1 special meeting with Eric D. Answered Eric V's question—is the WarnMe email message he received legitimate? Yes. UCSF announced today an emergency warning system called WarnMe. I added a link to it on the current students page. Fixed 3 broken links reported by Don K. Discovered very quickly that Entourage 2008 was no longer connecting to the server. Switched over to Outlook 2007 in Vista, but it was still very disorienting, and I felt very unproductive. BTS handoff meeting with Ingrid K, Darius M, Lisa C, Maria F. Lunch part 1 of 2 from the cafeteria: a slice of canadian bacon pizza—ate it in about 5 minutes. Cindy drove me, Carol, and JWG to the Palace of Fine Arts for a walkthrough of our site for the graduation ceremony coming up in 2 weeks. The seating in the theatre has rows of about 80 seats with no aisles—the only theatres I can think of like this are the Abe Lincoln theatre at Disneyland and (I think) the IMAX theatre in the Metreon. Fortunately the space between the rows is more generous than in our last graduation ceremony venue—the Nob Hill Masonic Center. We'll need to do a fair amount of setup work with chairs and tables which POFA is not providing. Lunch part 2 of 2 from the cafeteria: chicken burger. Helped Kim B track down the missing wireless connection instructions. Listserv work for Cindy. Helped Louis G with a mass email problem. BTS work: began adding faculty headshots. Followup with a linkcheck loop problem that occurs when visiting http://pub.ucsf.edu/cnba/Center/index.php but Kirk F says they don't maintain the site and they don't know who owns it. This problem is causing my linkcheck reports to generate really huge files. Grr. I will need to find a workaround. More internship email followup: requested a new email account from OAAIS. Analytics followup with Ingrid K—all is well. I learned today that Vista's "Run as..." command runs only as local admin unless you make a change to the registry. Once I changed that, I was able to run mmc the way I need to. More BTS faculty headshots. Dinner at home with Patrick: pig chops, steamed asparagus, rice. Began 7-pass-erasing the 2005 Mac Mini. Began new iMac setup for Patrick. Stretches. Weight training: superslow dumbbell fly, various other upper body. Stretches. Late meal: high fiber V8, apricot and mango lowfat yogurt, cow tamale, hot nonfat milk, hot water. More setup for Patrick's computer: migrated data, installed apps, moved it into place.