Friday, October 2, 2009
Stretches. Weight training: superslow kneeling kickback, superslow side-lying leg lift. Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Kiosk announcement followup. I learned yesterday and today that I don't run into any problems sending messages to our 4 class year student listservs but when I go wider to mailing lists for students outside our school the system thinks I'm spamming. Tamer says these need to be spaced 30 minutes apart—not a problem; I just have to remember this in the future. Began weeding the UCSF Communicators Network Google Group. This was the first time I used Office 2007 to create an email mail merge—it was easier than I thought. I knew what I was doing—it might not be so easy for someone not already familiar with mail merge. Also, the process permitted a preview of the message body but not of the entire message including the message header. Microsoft Office development team: to improve the email mail merge process, let me preview what message will be sent to what email address. Currently if you make a mistake on the last screen where you select the column of email addresses you could easily end up with an email merge fiasco. ICRD work for Mike F. Listserv administration. More ICRD work for Rodney. Followup with WeID about an ID card issue. Lunch: Panda Express. My fortune: You will be successful through innovation and determination. Management activities. I learned today that iPhoto does not let you add text to an image. I recommended picnik.com and photoshop.com instead. Discovered a problem with my journal—it's not Class B no-www. Will fix later. Met with a student to set up email on a BlackBerry—successful. Backed up website data to external portable hard drives. Met with 2 students, wireless setup—took 75 minutes to set up all 3 UCSF wireless networks. More followup on the problem of no confirmation requests for messages sent to listservs. Management activities. Calendar management: scheduled new planning meetings. To home. Chatted with upstairs neighbor Caroline about trash duties in our household. Dropped my iPhone, learned that Apple charges the same price as what we paid for the phone brand new. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon-garlic salmon, oven-roasted new potatoes, boiled peas, hot water.