Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Breakfast at home: one McIntosh apple (which I didn't like—good flavor but too soft), one banana, one blueberry muffin. To work. Linkchecking. Followup with student BS about computer maintenance. Helped student BA with an email problem. Ordered a replacement power adapter for MyBook for Eric. Helped student APL with SEP download and install. Modified the graduation regalia order form for faculty and residents. Tested a problem report in which email messages created in Apple Mail 4.4 and sent to our listserv system are delivered as plain text rather than as formatted messages. Sent Orlando L data he requested regarding internally used applications and projects. Snack: 2 oranges from mom and dad's tree. Lunch: Panda Express. My fortune: You are admired for your adventurous ways. Helped student BA with an email delivery problem. Sent ITS the following problem report: "I confirm that the problem described below by Year 3 PharmD student [name goes here] exists when using Apple Mail 4.4 with our listserv system. Steps to reproduce: Create a test listserv. Set up Apple Mail 4.4 with a UCSF Exchange email account. Create a new message in Apple Mail 4.4, address it to the test listserv. In the body of the message, use formatting such as bold, italic, colors, different font sizes. Send the message. Actual: When viewed in Outlook 2010 for Windows, OWA, and Outlook 2011 for Mac, the formatting does not appear in the received message. Expected: The formatting should appear in the received message. Additional information: If you perform the same steps but send to an individual (not a listserv), the problem does not happen. If you perform the same steps using Outlook 2011, the problem does not happen. If you perform the same steps using OWA with IE8, the problem does happen, but I don't know that this ever worked in the past. I am pretty certain that this used to work properly with Apple Mail in the past, but I cannot recall exactly when it stopped working. Workaround: install and use Outlook 2008 for Mac (I presume this works) or Outlook 2011 for Mac (I confirmed this works)." ICRD work. Edited and pushed live changes to the MPH page for Cindy. More ICRD work. Asked DLS to reinstall BigFix on our silver shared office laptop following clean Windows 7 installation due to PGP installation. Helped student HG set up wireless on a laptop. Exchanged foreign currency at Currency Exchange International (343 Sansome Street). The woman who helped me wouldn't take some of my Vietnamese dong—she said it was too old and no longer in circulation. Shopped the boys department at Zara (250 Post Street), bought a black velveteen jacket, 2 pairs of pants, and a scarf: about $90. Tried to help a woman on Market Street near Civic Center who had had no luck getting a cab and had asked for directions to Pacific Heights. She wanted to just start walking in that direction, but after looking at the map route to her destination on my iPhone I told her it was too far to walk. She decided to take her chances continuing to hail a cab. Dinner at Ananda Fuara: samosa dinner, chai. Used a Groupon. Delicious food, a very good experience. In Castro Street Station I encountered Larry, briefly said hi. Edited and uploaded photos. Wanted to buy something from Zara's website but there is no BUY button. I couldn't figure out how to do it! It seems like they still do not have online shopping available despite several pages on the web saying this was expected in 2010. Pushed some journal updates live, still have much work to do filling in the blanks from the Asia trip.