Friday, October 15, 2004
Day off from work. Leftovers for breakfast. Used Adobe Audition to separate tracks 11 and 12 on Dido's Life For Rent for Patrick. Track 12 is a hidden (ghost) track—it's not labelled on the CD at all. Regarding the error message "One of the files containing the system's Registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful." upon logging in to Windows XP SP1 or SP2, there seems to be very little information on the Web about this. MSDN has an old page which simply says, "This Windows 2000 Executive STATUS message is for your information. Choose OK to continue. No other action is needed." Lots of computer support websites recommend routine (chkdsk, scannow/sfc) and drastic (reformat, reinstall) actions. Only one report (by kennytan in Georgetown, Malaysia) from www.chip.com.my confirmed that it was a RAM problem. Trouble is I've recently been seeing this error on more than one computer in the office. Patrick and I went shopping for Halloween costumes. We went to Haight Street and saw the large costume collection at Costumes on Haight. I tried on a winter Swiss military uniform but the jacket was just a little too big for me and the pants were like a balloon. It felt like there were several extra yards of fabric that didn't need to be there. They had mariachi costumes, but we were looking for matador instead. Nothing else really seemed like a good fit both figuratively and literally. We had cheeseburgers (Jack for Patrick, cheddar for me) and fries at Burger Joint (415-864-3833, 700 Haight Street), whose decor is very clean but a bit staid but the burgers and fries were fresh and delicious. We looked in used clothing stores afterwards—still nothing. Dinner at home with Patrick: garden pizza delivered from The Front Room which arrived 20 minutes late and had a soggy center.