Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Oatmeal for breakfast. Fire alarm drill this morning - uneventful. Used the Channel Mixer feature in Photoshop for the first time ever to change a grayscale (mostly black) logo to dark blue for Cindy. Cleaned up files I no longer needed. Created then pushed live a new stylesheet to fix two minor problems for users of the Safari Web browser. Lunch at desk by myself: leftover chow mein. Spent the rest of the day trying to figure out a problem with a student's laptop. It's unable to connect to any Web site in the ucsf.edu domain and I can't figure out why. The hosts file showed nothing interesting, and when I searched for "ucsf.edu" in the registry, I got fatal exception 0e errors in VxD VCACHE. I repaired the registry using the DOS version of scanreg and then was able to successfully search the entire registry without BSODing, but a subsequent scan of viruses gave another fatal exception 0e error in VxD VMM. Stopped at Radio Shack on Market Street to pick up some audio cables. Dinner at Thailand Restaurant with Patrick and Erick: shrimp rolls and vegetable rolls, beef curry, chicken pad thai, basil chicken. After dinner, we went to a reading at Magnet by Tom Dolby, author of The Trouble Boy. He read from chapter 1, and it went well. The writing is modern urban pop fiction, and of typical quality for that genre. The best part about the reading was that it was short. At home, installed audio cables to enable me to hear both computers at the same time and use a headset with microphone on one of them.