Monday, November 9, 2009

Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. A new temp worker in the office helping with admissions: Alan. Got a request today from a student wanting to connect a Motorola Droid to UCSF email. Told them to try an Exchange connection if it existed and if that doesn't exist or doesn't work to try our IMAP settings. After that I found a forum discussion which says the Exchange connection doesn't download mail. Eric thinks the Exchange connection is (or might be?) a third-party product. Don's mobile broadband solution: prepared RFO for Cindy's signature. Listserv management. Confirmed that itsa.ucsf.edu aliases were removed for me, Cindy, and JWG. Resolved GAL display problems with help from Cesar by deleting .oab files from the Outlook folder. Chatted with Sue A about laptops. Worked on the communications section. More listserv management. Lunch: brought salad with tomato and cucumber from home. Made lots of great progress on the facelift project with Eric D: inserted 960gs, did a lot of stylesheet tweaking, Eric wrote some fresh JQuery code to provide some special behaviors for our new footer. I really enjoy pair-coding with him; we make a very productive team. A post today by Jason S of a VMware web page that was heavy on navigation and light on content cemented my feelings that we're moving in the right direction with the new interface we're designing for our site. Our pages aren't as navheavy as VMware's, but the techniques we're building can be used with any site, and I've never seen them put together quite like we plan to. Just a few hours of work today, and we're really starting to see all of the awesome coming together—exciting! Sent reminders and new procedures for laptop reservation to staff. Dinner at home by myself: leftover curry and vegetables with brown rice, Grace Bakery bread, honey butter. My Apple Mouse trackball is acting up—scrolling fails to work, even after I do the cleaning that resolved this problem in the past (flip the mouse over, press hard, then drag back and forth). Am interested in the new Magic Mouse, but our computer store on campus does not yet have a demo to try out. I also learned today that Magic Mouse when used in Boot Camp does not have the scrolling or swiping features, so I am unable to purchase them for my office which uses Apple laptops but always in Boot Camp. Today when I started CrashPlan to check on my backup status it got stuck on the splash screen saying "Upgrading CrashPlan...". I let it sit and 30 minutes later I quit it then manually downloaded 11.5.2009 and installed it. Now, the splash screen says "11.5.2009" along with "Upgrading CrashPlan...". Submitted a support request.