Thursday, April 1, 2004
Linkchecking. Updated the purchasing section with new e-mail addresses, sent it to Matt D for review. Updated a name and e-mail on the faculty and staff page due to Georgia H's retirement. Coded a new front page news story for Susie, and we got it through review to live quickly. Updated current students news with the new news story. Made backups of the dev server site root and my home folder and the live site's htaccess file. Lunch with Joel at L'Avenida (415-681-1246, 511 Irving Street). It was our first time back since their remodel, and it's quite classier than before. The walls and ceiling of the dining room were redone, the furniture is sturdier than before, the lighting is improved, they added a flat screen TV and a fountain and a fireplace. Also: a restroom between the kitchen and the dining room—no more walking through the kitchen to do your bizness. It's much more pleasant, and Joel said, "They took it to the next level" and I wholeheartedly agree. Installed FireFox 0.8 for Mac and Windows. Tweaked the Mozilla stylesheet on newstitle. Cleaned up my start menu. Worked on privacy pages again. Cable management for Cindy and Ena. Dinner at House of Chen (415-861-6868, 335 Noe near Market) with Patrick and BriKelJess. It was the first time for Patrick and me. Brian and Kelly had been before and said the food was good but the service was painfully slow. And that's exactly how it was tonight, too. We had two appetizer platters, crispy ginger fish, Hong Kong chow mein noodles, General Tso's chicken, sesame beef, mixed vegetables, steamed rice. Afterwards we went back to their place and watched a South Park episode about Mel Gibson and his Passion movie (I don't remember the exact name). Unfortunately, the episode wasn't very funny except for the appearance of the likeness of Alan Alda and the part at the very end.