Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Fixed some broken links on the live site caused by the reworking of the admissions section which hasn't gone live yet but because I moved things around it broke some links. Nightly backups have been failing for the past 3 days due to "unexpected end of media"—strange because it had been working fine in the past and we don't have any huge change in our data storage needs that I know of. Possible hardware failure of the tape drive. Not the tapes since it's happened with 3 different tapes. In looking through the backup log, I discovered trickler_4010.exe on Cindy's computer. A quick search determined this is spyware from Gator. I used Ad-Aware to remove it and over 50 other spyware objects. Took a long time for it to do all the deep scans and then when I rebooted it still found 2 more objects. Tested setting Ad-Aware to start automatically but it wouldn't start minimized. Couldn't figure out how to turn off the automatic start feature so I ended up uninstalling the whole thing. Yeesh! Did some filing. Almost finished writing the push script. Dinner at home with Patrick: baked chicken, corn on the cob, mac and cheese. Patrick and Sam went to Sam's recital tonight. Patrick sang a song called "Bero." Sam wrote the music, Patrick wrote the lyrics. I stayed home, finished researching all-in-one devices, decided on the Epson CX5200, made my purchase at PC Connection. When Patrick got back, we had pastries from Sunset Bakery at 9th and Judah which I'd brought home with me on the bus: a chocolate cupcake with a Powerpuff Girls plastic ring stuck in the top, an oval angel food cake with a mandarin orange embedded in the top, and a tubular pastry filled with whipped cream. My favorite was the orange cake—the others were delicious, but too rich for me. I received a reply from MUNI about the incident on May 6. They sent me a template correspondence, which would normally have been just fine except they forgot to fill in the fields! For example, the salutation said, "Dear [[Title]] [[LastName]]:" The first line read, "Thank you for informing us about the matter which occurred on [[OCCURDATE]]." It was sent by "Loubie, Bilal" Bilal_Loubie@ci.sf.ca.us, but it was signed by "Maria Williams, Manager Customer Relations". The last line said "Enc." but there was no attachment. This morning BK sent us an e-mail from his friend Makiko about friends of hers renting out their Paris apartment for $600 a month for 2 months this summer. Patrick's been looking for a getaway recently, but after much deliberation we decided it was more money than we were able to spend just now. $600 a month in the 11th arrondisement of Paris is a steal, but even air fare for one of us would be about $500 and then we'd still have to eat.