Thursday, April 30, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Taxo meeting. Online supp app meeting with JCB, JWG, Scott E, and Cindy. Installed our 3-year wildcard SSL certificate, but I discovered that it's not doing what we want—there was partly bad advice and partly user interface confusion that led to the error, must chat with TrustWave to resolve. Copied the student awards dinner presentation from the silver MacBook to the server. Lunch: leftovers. Eric D showed me his new HP Mini netbook—neat! He also showed me the Pirate language option in Facebook—hilarious!—and I showed him the language options in Google (e.g., Elmer Fudd, Klingon, Hacker). He had never seen the SNL McIntosh Post-it Notes video clip, so we watched that. Took and archived photos of product packaging: power squids, pqi usb drives. Created a "how to set the laptop up for presentations" instructions document for the white MacBook. Gathered and uploaded image originals for BTS to hand off to Darius and Ingrid. Reported cigarette smoke coming through the air vents. Chatted with TrustWave to resolve the SSL certificate problem. James at TrustWave was very nice and agreed to resolve the problem quickly and easily. Reorganized databases to set up for the supp app project. More SSL cert installation troubleshooting. Helped Joan M attempt with some information she needed. Set up recurring appointments for Eric D and I to investigate reimplementing our site in Drupal. Notified staff about projector setup instructions on both shared laptops. Organized files. Delivered a 4 GB usb drive to Shirin to use for work. Lucia, Shirin, and I rode with Cindy in Cindy's car, picked up JWG, and drove to SoMa for the graduation banquet (dinner) at Terra SF. Eric V and Scott E met us there. Everyone seemed to agree that it was a very pleasant space for our event. The dinner included buffet stations in the theme of "a taste of San Francisco". The Hayes Valley station included beef or portobellini sliders, onion rings and fries. North Beach included petite pizzas, saffron chicken, caesar salad, basil-rocket pesto penne. Inner Mission included jerk pork, island quesadilla, plaintains, chicken sopes, chicken and vegetable tamales. Dessert: petit four assortment. Got home around 10:35 PM. Successfully restored my Windows Vista VMware Fusion VM. A day or two ago I had accidentally quit or closed a window while the VM was starting up, and it corrupted something in a bad way enough that the VM no longer started. My Google searches: "failed to lock the file" and "cannot find a valid peer process to connect to". Rolling back did not fix it. I ended up restoring the VM from Time Machine, which was difficult because I ran out of disk space during the restore, which left me with no original VM for a bit, so it was a little scary for about 20 hours. I had to restart the computer and that somehow freed up disk space and then do the restore from Time Machine again. Now it's working again—hooray! Before the 1.5-TB drive, I didn't have space to back up the entire VM, but now I'm really glad I have the space for it. It's around 180 GB. I don't know why it's so large—I don't store any data files in it. Cardio warmup: 5 minutes. Stretches. Weight training: various upper body. Stretches. Late meal: leftover indian food, hot nonfat milk. To bed late.