Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Weight training: pec crawl. Breakfast: one organic, sliced pink lady apple. Rode Muni to work because my knee was hurting a bit from when I hit it getting out of Phil's car yesterday. Chatted with Lucia about the emergency fridge defrost. SCWG meeting. Helped student ET with problems connecting to email following the accounts migration. Listserv management. Web team meeting. Lunch from Carmelina's: bean and cheese burrito, Yerba Mate berry, ate on the steps next to the library. Lots of listserv rotation followup. Set up new bluetooth mice for our shared office laptops. Previously we used 2 different models of Kensington mice. The new mice are Logitech. They worked properly without installing the Logitech software which I was happy about because I still remember having awful experiences with Logitech driver software in the past and didn't want to install it if I didn't have to. The Kensington mice had grown unreliable somehow no what troubleshooting attention I gave them, so it was time to replace them. One of the Kensington mice required a coin in order to turn the thing that opened the cover to the battery. In retrospect, that was a pretty dumb design because not everyone has a coin handy. The Logitech mice does not require a coin. Also the Kensington mice required a receiver to be plugged in to the USB port. The Logitech mice use Bluetooth and simply work—no receiver required. So far pretty happy with them. Only small issue is that there's a small delay (less than a second) when beginning to use the mouse after rest. Linkchecking, Flickr work, kiosk work. Followup with Matt S about employee ID numbers and access to the staff portal. Asked Public Affairs to add a link to our YouTube page from their YouTube page. Small word edit on one of our YouTube pages. Removed an old announcement from the homepage for Susie. Archived website data to portable hard drives. Finished the fridge defrost that Lucia had started. Dinner at home with Patrick: pizza delivery from Seniore's. Mushroom and green bell pepper, large green salad. We worked on more IRS paperwork in response to a notice he received indicating that they don't know what they are doing.