Friday, April 24, 2009
On hunch.com, I have earned 1,153 banjos. Hunch is a very solidly designed application, but I still don't see that it is ever going to be very useful to me. Nearly all of the questions I can find in it are not interesting to me. The interesting ones don't have good questions or answers. I suppose it's really only good for people who have a hard time making decisions, and I suppose that's not me. Probably the hardest thing for me to decide is where or what to eat, and I don't know that Hunch is going to be able to help me out with that anytime soon. So far my assessment: disappointing. Sent lots of test emails trying to get Entourage to work again following the recent migration of my UCSF email account to Exchange Server 2007. Reminded Lisa C where our linkcheck reports are. Followup with student KP about a survey. Notified PubAff that we are now promoting the new WarnMe system on our current students page. Submitted a display name and email alias request for student SP. Made live the BTS website that Eric D and I have been working on for the past few months: bts.ucsf.edu. In this case, making a website live meant preparing people for the transition several weeks and also several days ago, setting a 10-minute freeze window where no website edits may take place, backing up the live destination just in case, copying subsite files from the old site to the new site, copying new staged files from the staging site to the new site, checking a few pages to make sure they work properly, running linkcheck scripts on the new site to generate error reports of broken links, implementing and verifying redirects from the old site to the new site, notifying other web developers of the new live site and asking them to update links and department names accordingly, asking Public Affairs and OAAIS to implement appropriate redirects or DNS changes. All went well—just took a while getting the old-site-new-site redirects confirmed—I was led astray a few minutes by browser cache. Reviewed a BTS announcement for Sarah P. Submitted SSL cert RFO (round 2) to Valerie S. Laptop setup for student PG. Listserv maintenance. Graduation page edits for Cindy. Followup with Helene LL about the forthcoming student awards dinner. Asked Valerie S to provide me with updates for the purchasing section. Dinner at Citrus Club (415-387-6366, 1790 Haight Street, San Francisco, California, USA) with Patrick. Stretches. Weight training: various lower body, crunch. Stretches.