Wednesday, August 6, 2003
Oatmeal for breakfast. CSS (leftnav) work all day. Also tried to figure out why Sophos is installed properly on James's computer but the Sophos Admin can't see it. Gave up after several reinstalls trying various different configurations. Got an error message when downloading Mac 9.2.2 Update: "The Shrinkwrap engine has reported an error. Error -60. (OK)" It appears the error message is benign—just double-click the downloaded archive to access the contents. Sent the following e-mail today to info@sfcenter.org: "Ugh! Please formally register my complaint with the popup window on your home page at http://www.sfcenter.org/ Here's what happens: 1. I go to your home page. 2. I get the popup window. 3. I close the popup window. 4. I click a link to view one of your pages. 5. I click my Back button. 6. I get the popup window. 7. I close the popup window. 8. I click a link to view one of your pages. 9. I click my Back button. 10. I get the popup window. 11. I close the popup window. and so forth. If you can't make the popup window go away, I'll just stop visiting your site. It's not worth my time! -- Frank Farm" Upgraded my office Power Mac G4 from 9.1 to 9.2.1, then from 9.2.1 to 9.2.2. (Thanks for the tips, Chris!) Lunch at Beijing on Irving. My fortune: Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. Dinner at Four Season with Patrick: potstickers, sesame chicken, basil shrimp (not spicy), steamed rice, hot tea. $22.95 before a $3.50 tip. His fortune: There is no substitute for hard work. Mine: You will have a long and prosperous life. Visited Brian, Kelly, and Jesse for the first time in about 8 months. Watched Jesse play Simpsons Road Rage (at which he's a master) and Buffy The Vampire Slayer (at which he's not bad). Watched an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on their TiVo. It was funny, but felt like an info-poor version of tips from GQ magazine. I wanted them to show the total cost of everything at the end along with a cash register sound clip: "cha-ching! This makeover cost only US$79,814.29!" Brian had a great suggestion: that someone create Straight Eye for the Queer Guy for all the gay and bisexual men who advertise themselves as "straight" or "straight-acting" and need someone to slobbify everything to convince the trick or date of their straightness. Brian showed us a new iPod which I hadn't seen before, as well as movies from one of their digital cameras, and snapshots from their new cellphones.