Friday, August 16, 2002
Searched the Web for occurrences of "www.sop.ucsf.edu". When we switched over to our new redesign last March, I had put in redirects from www.sop.ucsf.edu to the new site. However, that old machine was a very old SGI Indigo pizza box running IRIX and it got to where we had to take the server offline unexpectedly. Google found 41 sites linking to www.sop.ucsf.edu URLs, so I contacted all 41 sites and gave them updated information for their Web pages. I sent Brian Kusler a link to yesterland.com and he sent me back this message: "wow! i would shit twice and die to have one of those communist-style modernist tomorrowland murals in my house. i wonder what happened to those..." Made changes to the faculty page for Susie and Nancy Jane. Made changes to the Entering Students page and the Application Workshop page for James. Added a new page to the Current Students section describing how and why to use anti-virus software. Updated the footer to conditionally show quality assurance links from my home IP address. Dinner at home with Patrick: macaroni and cheese, corn on the cob, crab cakes. We finished Riven tonight. We had to use a lot of hints we found on the Web. I had gotten tired of the game, especially after seeing the answer to the Moiety gateway puzzle. So arbitrarily cryptic! Logical structures without logical meanings! Ugh!