Thursday, November 5, 2009
Web team meeting with Eric D and Susie L: created a new initialism (WCWG), planned the first WCWG meeting, made plans for our forthcoming pharmchem redesign, reviewed typefaces for our facelift project—another wonderfully productive and fulfilling meeting with these two. I did some quick maintenance on Susie's computer which she reports has been working unusually slowly. I ran Disk Cleanup, disabled a bunch of startup items, disabled unneeded addons in Firefox and IE, instructed her to restart her computer in the morning after Disk Cleanup finished. Still to do: defrag, disable unneeded fonts, turn off indexing. Lunch at Rigolo with Eric D: cow burger and fries for Eric, tuna salad sandwich and mixed greens side salad for me. Shuttle back to Parnassus. Resolved a permissions problem and followed up on other setup issues with Stephen F. Reported an ICRD problem to Terence BS: error message "SF088 User not authorized for Perimeter Code" when attempting to add a code for which I am supposed to be authorized. Submitted a request to OAAIS to resolve some problems with the setup of Stephen's AD and email accounts. Sent the monthly websteering lunch reminder. Submitted a request to OAAIS to remove all itsa.ucsf.edu aliases for people in my unit. These aliases aren't in use anymore, haven't been for years, and all they are good for now is for feeding spam into our accounts. I think OAAIS should have automatically gotten rid of them a long time ago, and I'm only now getting around to requesting this for us. Calendar management. SCWG followup. Followed up with Matthew T and Cesar G and Mozy Pro about an account migration for Chris C. Updated our web page that talks about firewalls to reflect the fact that Sygate is no longer available for download from OAAIS, notified SCWG. Troubleshot a report of grinding noises followed by a freeze/crash on the white shared office laptop: ran Disk Check, which found some problems; ran Disk Cleanup; manually emptied temp folders that Disk Cleanup failed to clean, scanned for viruses and spyware—all clean. Updated Java. Checked Apple updates—nothing critical to install. Still to do: check Microsoft Update, defrag, run an external disk check utility. Tested Mark B's resolution to a problem report I submitted to OAAIS on Tue Sep 15. Prepared a long email to the customer support manager at OAAIS regarding a problem that took 6 business weeks to resolve. Dinner at home with Patrick: vegetables pizza, side salad, hot water. Dessert: Patrick baked a sweet potato ginger pie and a pumpkin pie, so we each had a slice, and I'll be taking half of each in to work tomorrow. Watched about another 50 minutes of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) on library DVD with Patrick. Haven't had much time lately to continue setting up Windows 7. I realized yesterday, though, that in order to install HTML-Kit 292 I need to download the latest installer which has been revised to be more compatible with Windows 7. Resolved a small problem with the journal: October 2009 was not displaying properly. Shopped online.