Friday, September 26, 2003
Late lunch at New Tsing Tao: almond chicken with steamed rice and tea. My fortune: You will have a long and healthy life. Went over to Mike Lemont's place to troubleshoot sending e-mail. There are 2 problems, really: one is that he can receive e-mail but not send. I installed Outlook and tested with smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com (and authentication) and that worked, but there's no way in Eudora 5.1.1 to specify that. I don't know how he was sending e-mail in the past—he must have had some other server specified that doesn't require authentication. The other problem is that the old, old, old external modem he had now only connects at 28.8 instead of 56K—I tried to find a driver for it, but it's just too old and XP doesn't let it connect at the faster speed even though it recognizes it properly. Only thing I could think of was to buy and install a new modem for him. I asked him to just use WebMail since he also checks his e-mail away from home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Seniore's veggie medium pizza, green salad with ranch dressing. Watched Say Anything on DVD—Patrick's first time watching it. Occasionally some frames and sound would drop, but we were able to watch the whole film.