Friday, August 5, 2011
Breakfast: leftover hash browns, 2 eggs scrambled, toast, one pluot. Recently I resolved the You Don't Know Jack error "JackGame.exe has stopped working." In VMWare Fusion I gave Windows 7 1 CPU, 3072 MB (aka 3 GB) of RAM and turned on 3D graphics (aka Accelerate 3D Graphics). My iMac has only 4 GB of RAM so it was best to close all other Mac apps before trying to run You Don't Know Jack in this configuration in Fusion. Normally I can do everything I want to do in Windows 7 with only 1 GB of RAM but I guess most games require more memory. It was not necessary to disable Symantec Endpoint Protection. (I see now that notes I had made for my journal on July 16 would have helped me, but they had not yet been published.) Rode Muni to work. First day back to work in 3 weeks. Joel and I talked about Egypt. Archived website data to portable hard drives. Linkchecking, Flickr work, kiosk work. Met 1-on-1 with Eric: catching up. Office birthday lunch: Sammie made a fantastic toffee chocolate ginger bundt cake. Web edits for Carol. Answered a variety of computer and ICRD questions from students by email. Confirmed email migration was successful, sent thanks to Kraig K and others at ITS. Asked ITS how to control the spam firewall for a distribution group. Chatted briefly on the phone with Tina. Followup with Carol about web edits. Lisa showed me how to use MyExpense. I didn't think I would need to use it, but the reimbursement request I intended to file a number of weeks ago didn't get filed, and we had since switched over to using MyExpense. It took 30 minutes, and that was with Lisa's help. Met 1-on-1 with Eric: wireframing in Omnigraffle. Mobile / New Media / Web committee meeting: John G talked about IT-Forum meetings, we decided to try splitting the group, web accessibility. Created a hard drive image so that I could install Snow Leopard onto the white shared office laptop. (It has a broken DVD drive.) Chatted briefly on the phone with Tina. Rode Muni home. Patrick dropped off some of his stuff at my place. He is leaving his current living arrangement. If he doesn't find a roommate situation before the end of the month, he's moving back in, taking the second room as his space and paying rent and utilities. Dinner at home: bing cherries, mahi mahi (previously frozen I found out when I pulled the package from my fridge) with ginger and dill in a white wine reduction and fresh-squoze lemon; 2 corn on the cob. Dessert: warm hazelnut banana bread, french vanilla ice cream. Did some work for about 2 hours: site maintenance to push live some needed fixes.