Thursday, September 11, 2003
A very busy day, got a lot done. Installed more software on Brian's computer: Netscape 7.1, Eudora Pro 5.1.1, Office XP, Office Updates, Adobe Reader 6.0. Helped Joel with buying a new laptop. Cheese pizza for early lunch by myself at my desk: $2.50. Computer support coordinator meeting: spent over an hour talking about the major virus and worm events of the last couple of weeks: Blaster, Nachi, what ports are open, what ports are closed, what went well, what went wrong, promises to communicate better in the future, anti-virus solutions, focus groups, on and on and on. Enough already. Ritz and cheese mini rounds for a late afternoon snack. I forget how much it cost, but it was far more than people should pay for 3 ounces of food. I think it was 99 cents. That's 33 cents per ounce, or $5.28 per pound (!). Coded a page describing campus VPN problems and workarounds, sent it to Jeremy, Christine, and Richard for review. Manually checked that Windows automatically downloaded a critical update from yesterday. 2 of the 11 computers I checked failed to download it even though they were scheduled to do so. Microsoft worries me like that. Dinner at Pasta Pomodoro with Patrick: iced tea, half spinach salad, and milanese for Patrick. water and ravioli di zucca for me. Ran in to Brian and Kelly in front of Ingenious on Castro, walked up and down the street with them. Very warm and clear night. Very nice. Coded and edited Lodestar til shortly after midnight.