Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Breakfast: cream of wheat, fresh banana, brown sugar, cinnamon. Telecommute day. Graduation section changes for Joel. More investigating the admissions e-mails not being received on itsa problem. Sent a password policy proposal to Chris. Updated current students news and calendar. Confirmed a calendar listing for an event a student wanted me to post. Lunch: leftover chicken and vegetables. Updated the student database on the web to reflect new e-mail addresses for third-year students. Updated InDesign to 3.0.1. Experimented with creating text filled with a gradient in InDesign CS. It took a while, but I eventually got the effect I wanted. But when I try to drag a gradient I created to the Swatches palette it's not saved there—I don't know why. Grocery shopping at Trader Joe's. We're trying mid-week to avoid crowds. Dinner at home with Patrick: pizza and salad from TJ's. Built an RSS 0.91 feed from scratch for my journal, got it to work correctly as a live bookmark in Firefox. (Travis, are you still reading here?) It took about 25 tabs of research in Firefox to figure it out. I didn't test any other RSS readers, but 0.91 looks pretty simple enough. Started creating a new favicon for frankfarm.org but stopped when I realized I had unwittingly very nearly recreated the circle-F icon/symbol that Macromedia uses for Flash. Time to take a break. Well, it's time for bed really.