Thursday, March 17, 2005
It's Saint Patrick's day! Cindy brought in green coffee cake with green sugar sprinkles. Melissa brought a Swiss cake roll from a Japanese grocery or bakery for an Irish holiday. I think it was Ena who brought salsa verde and tortilla chips. Followed up with a lot of various issues: a student's e-mail account being accidentally closed, viewing PDF files problem with the website, others. Finished creating new password icons. Helped James and Melissa set up the laptop for the final admissions committee meeting. They celebrated the end of the admissions cycle with a green and white quarter sheet cake and other refreshments. Lunch with Joel at Pomelo: I had chicken noodle soup, Joel had rice with chicken and green beans. Afterwards we ran errands on Irving Street. Joel tried to find chopsticks for Michele but we could only find wooden ones and he wanted plastic. Had trouble refreshing icons that weren't displaying properly in Windows XP. In older versions of Windows, deleting ShellIconCache from the Windows directory fixed the problem. My version of Win XP doesn't have a ShellIconCache file anywhere. Instead, I deleted C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db (on my system it's a 10 MB file!) and this didn't work either. I gave up trying to find a solution and just renamed the icons—if they have different names the problem goes away. Today Ena gave me a Jolly Rancher lollipop.