Tuesday, January 21, 2003
8:30 AM bus didn't show up again. Worked on printers in the IRC. Met with Rob Duca, Susie Levings, and Cindy Watchmaker in Susie's office to discuss Web plans. Business lunch with Susie at Ella's, a very pleasant restaurant next to the Laurel Heights campus. When I got back to the office I noticed that Kristina's printer had arrived, so I went to The Source, our campus computer store, picked up printer cables and other things we needed. Installed and configured Kristina's printer—an HP LaserJet 1200. Got it working in about 15 minutes. The hardest part was that the instructions said to install the software before connecting the USB cable, but during the software installation it said it couldn't find the printer, so I plugged the USB cable in with the error on the screen and then everything more or less proceeded as expected. Installed Michael's copy of InDesign 2.0, so he has his official license now. (He'd been trying it out and decided he liked it.) Dinner at home with Patrick: condom pasta with lima beans and prawns in a creamy lemon sauce. Figured out a plan for getting rid of Yahoo! Mail and the accompanying spam: implement single-wall spam filtering through sonic.net's SpamAssassin software and if that isn't good enough, do double-wall filtering with 5dollarhosting's spam filtering software. Hopefully soon—no more spam! And no more slow Yahoo! Mail! Caught up on e-mail. Did more research for buying a new printer—decided to say no to the HP OfficeJet 6100 because HP didn't have user manuals or drivers available on their Web site—the OfficeJet 6100 wasn't even listed in their list of printers in the support section! Hoped to go to bed early because I have a meeting at 9:00 AM at Laurel Heights, but it just didn't happen, even after 2 glasses of chardonnay—Schug 2000—a gift from Heather for my helping her out with her laptop. It was quite delicious! Thanks, Heather! (Hi to you, too, Michelle!)