Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Usual oatmeal for breakfast. Student computing committee meeting: Scott Saffian of Xythos demoed their product. It looks good so we decided next steps. Scanned in some documents for Kristina, converted them to PDF. Resolved some permissions problems with the new server. Lunch: Nan King Road Bistro with Ena, Joel, and Melissa. Melissa got a passport photo done on the way on Irving Street. Helped a student with e-mail migration. Sent out announcements about the migration. Helped Joel with missing stickies. Helped Melissa with permissions issues. Placed an order for a vacuum cleaner and a flashlight. Tested guest accounts with the new server. Patrick tells me over IM that I got a parking ticket—oops I moved the car yesterday thinking it was time to move it and it wasn't. Parking tickets in SF are $35. Oh, well. Rebuilt the new server's ghost image for backup. Installed password management tools on the server. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover pizza from his day with Jason B in North Beach, leftover bacon and spinach salad, leftover jambalaya. Finished acrocapturing the Faderman essay, began formatting it for editing for Patrick. Installed Reason Adapted for Patrick. Archived a happy anniversary e-card from Chris and Nate. Reviewed nightly backups; I realized I need to create tarballs instead of backing up the files directly because symlinks aren't getting seen as symlinks—they're getting seen as the files they represent. Tweaked link checking for home websites. Small link edits on Lodestar. Watched some of Frontline: A Company of Soldiers, which documents the Iraq War as seen through the camera of a BBC crew embedded within a small Army unit.