Thursday, June 11, 2009
Shower. More Time Machine tshooting: "Backup failed with error: 18" and "Cookies do not match." Repaired disk permissions on my primary hard drive. Turned Time Machine off. To work. The registrar's office recently changed their authentication system to match Active Directory and in the process I discovered a problem: their system does not support the same password length that Active Directory does. What's funny is that I immediately suspected a password length problem since I frequently use passwords that are longer than most, so I reported the problem and suggested that they look at password length first, and the first reply I received from their office was that their system "does not have a character length restriction" (which I know is not what the person meant, but those were the exact words). I replied, and the second reply I received said, "It seems our database has [a] problem with your ??-character long password. Let me work on that and get back to you later." (where ?? is a particular integer). Flickr work. Spent most of the day working on health events process and form for Chris C. I created my first form in Wufoo—it's pricey but very slick, recommended if you can afford it. We can't, and I didn't realize until too late that their free version is limited to 10 fields, but I enjoyed my short experience with Wufoo. Began investigating LimeSurvey instead; Eric D has already been using it and liking it. It's a big user experience step backwards going directly from creating forms in Wufoo to creating forms in LimeSurvey, but you sure can't beat the price of the latter. I discovered and reported a problem with wufoo.com—it would accept a password that I created during account creation but it would not accept the same password upon a subsequent login. ACPE notice changes for Susie. Kevin's art showing at Splash. Dinner at California Pizza Kitchen with Patrick.