Monday, January 2, 2006
Back at work today. Updated current student schedules (link to School of Medicine electives). Updated current student news. Helped Joel with his Palm Pilot and PalmOne (Pa1mOne) software. "Outlook Calendar OLERR:0D-0050 OLERR:0D-0001 OLERR:0D-0005." Solution: temporarily gave Joel administrator rights, clean uninstalled Palm Desktop (including removing U.S. Robotics registry entries), removed Outlook Calendar offline items, restarted Outlook with 'outlook /resetfolders', reinstalled Palm Desktop, resynched the Calendar with Desktop overrides Handheld, restarted the computer, resynched with Synchronize. Tested adds and deletions in both directions. All fixed in about 2 hours. Also troubleshot another problem for Joel—he's no longer able to see advertisements on web pages (he enjoys seeing them). Our site license version of Webroot Spy Sweeper seems to be preventing him from seeing them even if we uncheck the Host File Shield preference. I was also unable to uninstall Spy Sweeper—no Uninstall or Remove button appears when I select it in Add/Remove Programs control panel. I submitted a ticket to the helpdesk for resolution. Snack: raisins. Web page updates for Cindy and James. Lunch: roast cow and cheddar sandwich, orange juice. Updated a listserv for Joel. With Kim's help, I updated the photocopier page to reflect the copier's new location. Installed Firefox 1.5 at work for me. Updated my list of online file storage solutions for people who are unable to send or receive attachments or people who otherwise need an online method of sharing files. You can find it by searching Google on "ucsf pharmacy unable to send attachments" (without the quotes). Chris had pashmina and silk scarves for everyone after returning from his vacation. He also bought me a little winter cap with ear flaps—I love it! I distributed my gifts for the office staff which I brought back from Hawai'i: small bottles of body lotion and Hawaiian-themed Post-It note pads and (for Joel) Hawaiian floaty pens. After work, Patrick and I had dinner at Thai Chef: fried rice with cow, salmon in green curry, tea, water. Afterwards, we went to the Castro Theater showing of 9 to 5 using a gift certificate Patrick had gotten me over a year ago. It was a lot of fun seeing that old film again with an enthusiastic crowd. The condition of the film was pretty miserable—washed out colors, lots of scratches, sound spotty in places—but it was easy to overlook those problems with such a great combination of talent from everyone involved.