Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Melissa brought in pumpkin chowder today—delicious, even though she says it didn't turn out like she imagined. Programmed a news story to start displaying on December 1 and run through January 11 regarding the decommission of the Library's proxy service. Organized information sent to me by Mike R about our new IP addresses. Notified Julie Dang about a problem with someone's Hotmail e-mail account getting full. Link checking. Alerted campus Web developers about the new Campus Housing Office going live without any notice whatsoever. A few links on my site were broken, and worse yet—the pages were 404 not found, which means they didn't even bother to set up redirects with the launch of their new site. Lunch with Melissa and Joel at Masala, which has an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet for $6.99. The food was quite delicious even though I found a hair in my food, which I quickly swept into a napkin and hid under my plate. We sat near the front window, me with my back to the window facing Joel and Melissa across from me. During lunch, Joel pointed out the window with a surprised look on his face, so I turned to look and was immediately sorry I did because he was pointing at a dog crouched in mid-poop with one log already on the sidewalk. Met with Cindy and Chris about resolutions for VPN issues. They say they had a good meeting with others about it, but I'm reluctant that things will improve, given ITS's long history of poor service. Changes for James telling applicants in Southern California what our expectations are regarding the recent wildfires and documents required by our November 1 application deadline. Many students have been calling because schools down there are closed and they can't get the documents required by our application process. (We're not holding them to the deadline if we can confirm that their school had indeed been closed.) Dinner at home by myself because Patrick had gone to a piano recital with Sam at Davies Hall for Evgeny Kissin. My dinner was: fresh spaghetti, leftover red sauce with ground pig and green bell peppers. Optimized Patrick's laptop by disabling services as recommended by Black Viper. Installed a new version of Sophos Anti-Virus for all home computers, reconfigured automatic updating.