Tuesday, March 4, 2003
More work on home page news. Debrah had changes to the schedules. Created editable academic calendar. Joel found 2 errors in the academic calendar list of dates (and I found one more as well), so I fixed those. Ran linkcheck again because there were so many changes to the calendar section. All clear—no broken links. Helped Michael resolve the problem described in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 329950. Worked some on getting old college data for 4th-year students from old dBASE III databases. Worked on "Step 4: Make key decisions" in /webdev/, specifying the differences between our template system and our proposed template system and using no template system. Dinner at home with Patrick: Chinese beef stew over steamed rice. Patrick got a bunch of chores done today. He also did Mandarin homework, drew more artwork for Lodestar, and chatted with Amy and David. I caught up on e-mail. I've been reading The Hours by Michael Cunningham. His style is hard for me (mostly because I don't like when parenthetical phrases and sentences are so frequently used as to annoy me). In fact, I wonder how the novel was chosen to receive the Pulitzer prize.