Monday, October 21, 2002
Web steering committee meeting. John K demonstrated his new faculty and staff directory which exposes employee IDs to the world as querystring data. Worked on the student database. Lunch: Subway sandwich. Dinner at home with Patrick: pasta. Patrick did very well on his oral report in Mandarin class—no screw-ups! He also converted Second Island to a PDF and uploaded it to the Kinko's Web site. Kinko's prints it out in New York City and delivers it by courier—we pay the same price to have it duplicated at Kinko's in San Francisco, and we pay the courier instead of the post office to deliver it to his agent. Patrick used this method last time his agent needed to see a printed manuscript, and it worked very well. Patrick and I registered the domain called patrickryan.us.