Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Usual oatmeal breakfast, except with blueberries instead of banana. Apple flyers followup. Helped two students mitigate spam. Minor web update for Cindy and Susie. New news for Susie. Mocked up links to virtual tour from the admissions pages, sent it to Cindy and James for review. Helped Chris configure a new Dell D820 laptop even though he's still on the fence about my recommendation of a MacBook Pro instead. Application workshop page update for Julia and James. Purchased DVD-R blanks at the campus techstore. DMM followup with botched computing services handout job. Lunch: takeout from Panda Express. Copied the DVD to send to our captioner—it copies successfully! My fortune: You create enthusiasm around you. Doctor appointment. Picked up extra cdroms from Christina. Tried to stop in to say hello to Kirk but he wasn't in. Dropped off cdroms for John McW. Took photos at the library. Met briefly with Polly, showed her how to create bookmarks and hyperlinks within Microsoft Word. Sent some required software cdroms to Ian in interoffice mail. Helped Chris with freeing up space on the C: drive. Student computing committee followup. Downloaded and installed the web browser called Flock 0.7.4.1 just to see what all the noise was about. My first impression was that it's extremely fast at Flickr operations. Instead of clicking on the link for the Flickr Organizer, all my sets are instantly available to me within Flock. I don't have a traditional blog, so I can't test out those features of Flock. The installation was very, very simple and fast, and it included connecting to my Flickr account. Flock copied all my bookmarks over from Firefox, and exporting my Sage feeds from Firefox and importing them into Flickr was a manual operation, but simple enough. I also signed into Delicious where I have perhaps 5 bookmarks stored, but the bookmarks I have in Firefox (and now Flock) are a mess, so I've chosen to not share them yet. I've set Flock as my default browser for now and we'll see how it goes.