Monday, June 6, 2005
Breakfast: oatmeal. I learned who Jeremy M. Barker is today—a pal of Nico's. Met briefly with our new hire Charles, got him to create a master password and set it up, gave him basic instructions around his desktop and using Meeting Maker. Cleaned old keyboards which still work. Spent most of the morning trying to resolve a problem in which Internet Explorer 6 refuses to accept cookies. I tried the more obvious things like setting the browser settings correctly, entering the specific domains I want and saying "Allow" but it doesn't take. It used to work fine in the past but something has happened and it misbehaves consistently now. I uninstalled Service Pack 2 and now it accepts cookies. I reinstall Service Pack 2, and it no longer accepts cookies. Grr! Oh, look—a couple hours have gone by! I resign myself to my fate: this cannot be resolved without clean installing XP, something I'm not yet prepared to do. I will work around the issue by temporarily (we're talking at least several months) using Netscape 7 (the other "supported web browser" for many UCSF web applications). Linkchecking. Met with Susie: we talked about the new pages for maps and locations and the virtual tour which went live today. We created yet another new mockup in Photoshop of our HTML e-mail project. Ordered new spare keyboard and mice. Planned for setting up e-mail for a student who has returned from a leave of absence. Chatted with Chris about computer purchases and other things. Dinner at home by myself: blueberry and banana smoothie, large shell pasta, vegetable marina sauce, peas mixed in. Dessert: fresh strawberries, whipped cream.