Thursday, May 7, 2009
Cardio warmup: 18 minutes. Weight training: kneeling kickback variation, side-lying leg lift variation. Cardio cooldown: 5 minutes. Usual oatmeal breakfast. In Thunderbird 2.0.0.21, the icon to create a new message is a sheet of paper with a pencil over it and the label underneath it is "Write" but I think this is a poorly designed icon because a pencil is not involved in the process. When I think about creating a new email message, I don't think about pencils and paper. I'm also looking for a label such as "New Message" or simply "New". Now that I've switched from Apple Mail to Thunderbird, it seems like I have a lot more memory (RAM) available, but I could not find very many complaints that Apple Mail is a memory hog. To work. Taxo conference call. Helped student CP with email problems. Answered questions for student AD about video. Updated current students news and the bowl of hygeia page with a photo provided by graduate Helen W. Followup with servint about redirects and previewing sites before DNS switchover, sent the solution to Eric D. Followup with OAAIS—they did not complete our SSL/DNS ticket like they said they did. Published the commencement speech from last Saturday's graduation ceremony. Fixed a broken link to a UCTV video—they have been moving their videos to YouTube, so now it's a snap to embed. Reconfigured our website monitoring service to split up my home and work websites and to include Eric D on the weekly reports. Responded to Sue A's request for a "digital signature" for Steve K. Sent Laura M a copy of a job description. Followup with Susie on a management activity. Calendar management. Eric D and I had our first Drupal meeting which turned out to be extremely productive. We are most likely going to reimplement pharmacy.ucsf.edu in Drupal, but while waiting for homepage redesign specifications from Susie we are seeing how far we can get just exploring Drupal functionality and possibly rebuilding the site as it exists now. We manually updated to version 6.11 because Fantastico did not have the update yet (it's been out for a week). We examined the wide array of configuration settings, entered site info, configured cron, installed a bunch of modules that we'll eventually be using, set up users, did some testing, examined themes, installed Zen. Eric's experience with Drupal in the Partners in D side of his job and his prior experience with Joomla at UCSB has proven very helpful. Dinner at El Toreador (415-566-8104, 50 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, California, USA) with Patrick: $37.76 after a $6 tip.