Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Breakfast: same as yesterday. To work. SCWG meeting. Toured the new 2nd floor of the library. Chatted with Mark B about grads-turned-residents and account closures. Linkchecking. Flickr work. Lots of small web edits. Distributed small gifts from my Asia trip—small handcrafts made from wire and used telephone book paper: Rodney received a rattle for his kids, Shirin received a ladybug, Lisa received a small dragonfly, Lucia received a lizard, Sammie received a butterfly, Carol received a big dragonfly, Don received a turtle, Cindy received a purple flower, Joel received a grasshopper, Eric received a keychain fob and a small basket, Susie received green tea from Laos. Chatted with Lucia about encryption and whether her DVD drive was fixed (she still has to test it). Listserv management. Followup with Lillian W about how to reach all physical therapy students for one of the pages under /comm. Graduation section updates for Cindy. Listserv management. Submitted an email address request for Chris W. Minor link edit for student GG. Listserv management. Resent my November 2010 feedback for MyAccess 2.0 to SCWG for review. Small web edit to the list of accounts after followup with Rodney. Redirected a CLE support request from student XVY. Traded emails with Ena. Helped students EP and MS with a website. Lunch: tortilla chips, mushroom and green onion quesadilla from Carmelina's, water. While eating lunch the plastic fork I was using snapped in two and one of the broken pieces subsequently poked a hole in my finger deep enough for it to bleed - ouch! ICRD work. "Upgraded" Windows XP to Windows 7 on the silver shared office laptop in order to prepare it for installation of PGP whole disk encryption. PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) should not be installed if you have Windows XP on an NTFS-formatted Boot Camp volume. If you do, WDE will not be able to edit the boot.ini file properly. You can either: (1) upgrade XP to Vista or 7 then proceed with installation of PGP WDE, or (2) keep XP but convert your NTFS volume to FAT32 before installing PGP WDE, or (3) keep XP and use a third-party NTFS driver such as NTFS-3G. I chose to upgrade XP to 7 but there is no direct upgrade path. I chose to do a custom installation of Windows 7 and then use Windows Easy Transfer to bring the data and settings over. This worked for me. To home. Dinner at home: organic jasmine brown rice with stir-fried organic tofu and organic mushrooms, garlic, basil; green tea soda. 2 fortune cookies from Ross Alley: (1) You will receive unexpected support over the next week. Accept it graciously. (2) An unexpected event will soon make your life more exciting. Laundry. Edited and uploaded photos. Rearranged photos in sets on Flickr because I realized only now that I forgot to change the clock on my digital camera to match the local time so all the timestamps are off by about 15 hours. Late snack: microwave popcorn, 2 chocolate-covered cherries. Upgraded firmware for my Airport Extreme from 7.4.2 to 7.5.2.