Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Continued on the grad info for Joel in InDesign. Chatted briefly with Susie and Cindy regarding recommendations for how our URL should appear in printed materials. They're putting together a great set of brochures for prospective students that describe profiles of real people in the school: students and faculty. Started working on the student database, but got errors with the ODBC connection that Mike Webb provided. Grad info HTML page mockups are two-thirds done. Probably ready tomorrow. Dinner at Ton Kiang with Sam and Patrick. We took Sam out to dinner for helping us out with our moving. We got Menu 2: any 12 items for US$39.00. We got barbecued pork buns, green chives and shrimp dumplings (twice), pork dumplings (twice), Shanghai meat dumplings, sticky rice with meat wrapped in a leaf, scallops and shrimp dumplings, pot stickers, foil wrapped chicken, vegetable and pork buns, and egg custard tarts. Afterwards, we drove through Golden Gate park, then Sam dropped us off at home. Patrick has been making new mix tapes for the car. And, like usual, he went to Jumpin Java to write earlier today. Tonight I tested our DSL speed that we recently set up with Sonic.net. We were promised 384 kbps minimum, but up to 1.5 mbps for down, and 128 kbps for up. Tonight, when I measured at 9:50 PM, we got 1254 kbps down and 110 kbps up. Way to go, Sonic! I'm very, very happy we chose Sonic. I'm going to recommend them to all our incoming students next month or so. I installed more Windows updates and software updates. I updated my bookmarks page.