Thursday, August 28, 2003
Ordered a new hard drive for home. Coded a new front page news story for Susie, sent it out for her review. She approved the update from the dean, so that page went live. More troubleshooting with Mike Lemont's computer—I think it's mostly better now. It'll have to do as it's all I have time for. Installed a new monitor which Susie got for me on her budget: a Samsung SyncMaster 191T. It's sweet coz I still have 3 other XVGA computers on a KVM switch and I can still hook them up to the 191T at the same time as the new digital graphics card I installed. Everything is bright and sharp now, almost too sharp. I only have Windows 2000 but I need ClearType. Can't wait to install Windows XP to get that. Lunch at desk: leftovers from last night. Windows non-critical updates and Office updates took most of the afternoon and early evening. Got everyone in the office done except James and Chris. Stayed at work late; caught the 8:00 PM bus home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Barilla cellentani con i salmoni, country bread. Unplugged the suspectedly bad hard drive from the problematic computer. Restarted. Scanned for viruses. Discovered the Nachi-A worm (finally!) on it. Cleaned, rebooted, checked again—not there. The drive was occasionally making groaning sounds, so now I know it's this one not the one I just unplugged. Played e-Scrabble in real time with Brian Kusler.