Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Today on the bus to work I saw a car with a smashed-in window near Quintara and 22nd, probably the work of a car burglar. A few days ago I saw another car like it near Lomita and Lawton. It makes me fearful of my own car now that I have to park it on the street. Mike Webb stopped in the office to install a DB2 client so that I can access student information from their database using ODBC. Previously, very cumbersome access was provided to get to this data, and there were no databases talking to each other. People couldn't be certain they had the most current information. Susie Levings and Joyce McKinney came over afterward to discuss URL names at UCSF—they're looking to provide standards or guidelines to people at UCSF to choosing domain names, hopefully a structure that would promote consistency across the university's hundreds of Web sites. Aaron came over to see our new place and to celebrate his acceptance to NYU's doctorate program in literature. He brought a bottle of Korbel, and he and Patrick toasted to his future PhDness. Way to go, Aaron! Dinner at home with Patrick: stir-fried pasta from last night with some added cut asparagus and whole garlic cloves, sweet bread with butter, leftover champagne. Patrick wrote some more in the evening. I was exceptionally tired after dinner and decided to nap, but it turns out I slept until midnight then got up (couldn't go back to sleep) and surfed the Web and checked e-mail and tried to secure my additional 3 IP addresses with Sonic (but couldn't—I have to wait until the DSL is live). I defragmented Patrick's laptop.