Monday, March 6, 2006
Breakfast at home by myself: cereal, yogurt. Checked on backups. Burned archives to CD-ROM. Troubleshot problems with printers in the IRC lab with Kim. Lunch: sandwich and fruit cup at desk by myself. Met with Cindy. Poster work. Uploaded revised schedules for Lucia. Made live CGE links on the current students page for Cindy. Snack: a banana. Added a link to the graduation section from the PharmD home page for Chris. Updated current student news. Met briefly with Susie—her water heater at home exploded, so we rescheduled our meeting for tomorrow morning. Installed IE7 Beta 2 Preview for Windows. I am surprised at how few problems I found with websites. I was expecting the worst, but many sites I looked at in a few minutes looked perfectly fine. Helped someone from Radiology troubleshoot a problem with sending e-mail to a student. Snack: a banana. Dinner #1: leftover noodle soup from So. Dinner #2: yogurt, turkey burgers. Today on my Mac Mini I had a problem with the Finder's Help Viewer application. When I started it, the screen was blank, and when I attempted to search for items, it would begin searching and never stop. I found the answer by searching Google on "help viewer" broken which led me to a FAQ at thexlab.com which had the answer: trash the preferences files. It disappoints me that I still have to deal with corrupted preferences files on the Mac. When I worked technical support at Aldus and Adobe, trashing the prefs file was one of the first things we frequently did when troubleshooting problems on the Mac. We did it so frequently I had wished Photoshop automatically trashed its preferences file every time it started up. Now, over a decade later, people are still trashing the prefs, trashing the prefs. Why?