Monday, April 19, 2004
Breakfast: oatmeal with Mexican vanilla, cinnamon, banana. Link checking. Prepared RFOs for Adobe software purchases. Added names to the Kappa Psi LISTSERV for Jeff L. Scanned and adjusted photos for Cindy. Graduation photo Web page updates from Joel—coded, sent to review, then made live. Checked in with Kevin S about the SAA welcome letter and whether it should mention WebMail or not. Left a message with Rich T about the LDAP project asking for status. Lunch at desk: lunchmeat sandwiches, bite size Tostitos. Read an article on Slate by Josh Levin called "The Valet You Don't Have To Tip" about automatic parking garages. I had the idea for them in college—I didn't know people were actually making them. Cool! Slate has really nice short URLs. I like that. Went to woehr.de and watched the Flash presentation of the Multiparker 720—very sweet! Researched password management software. Updated List of Accounts and related Web pages. Talked on Skype with a stranger named Peter Torrens (torrpeter) who was trying out Skype for the first time. We talked for 3 minutes 22 seconds just testing it out—it worked well, as was the case the previous times I'd used it. He lives in Boulder, Colorado and has never been to San Francisco. Went home. Read the new Gay and Lesbian Review over dinner. The G and LR has an interesting article about the history of bisexuality and homosexuality in the Hawaiian islands. Watched bits of American Idol—for tonight's show they included some the worst auditions and performances so that people could laugh at them. I turned it off about 15 seconds into William Hung's live performance. The phenomenon of his popularity / notoriety is really quite bizarre. Tried figuring out why my cursor disappears in Gemstar Plus, found an ATI support document which gave a suggestion which seemed to work (for now): [Some customers have reported that the following steps have helped to work around this issue: Within TV Setup > Display tab: 1. Set the Video Size to 'Medium' 2. Uncheck 'Auto Hide Controls when in Full Screen' option 3. Exit the TV Player and launch Gemstar GuidePlus+. INFO-BASE# 4234. Also, separately, cpcug.org reported that the registry entry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\Multimedia\Features\TV\Display\DisplaySize can also cause the problem if that value is set to 4. Change it to 3 for the fix.] (Also see: Tue Aug 10, 2004.) I didn't realize until 10:15 PM that Brian K left me a message around 5:30 PM today. I had to listen to it 3 times coz I wasn't sure if it was him. Patrick wrote me a long letter and I started to write him a long letter back but got tired and it got late and I have a 9:00 AM meeting tomorrow.