Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Backups work. Push up, modified barbell curl. Breakfast: usual oatmeal and yogurt. Student computing committee meeting: me, Ian, Kirk, and Jon. Helped Esther with e-mail. SCC meeting followup work. Lunch at Dragonfly by myself: vegetarian noodle soup, thai iced tea. Computer troubleshooting for Chris. Turned off lots of services he didn't need, removed Sophos daily scan because it was slowing him down, uninstalled unneeded apps, reconfigured BounceBack to back up only desired data rather than all 3 entire hard drives. MacBook introduction for Chris. Confluence work for Will. Kathleen had resolved the 10 MB file upload limit, and she also increased the number of uploads from (I think it was 5) to 10. Got a lot done with the Class of 2008 Confluence site. I noticed the Confluence web server was down for a few minutes today, but I didn't complain. They appear to be configuring the server on multiple ports. Not a problem. Dinner at home with Patrick: salad with leftover chicken, bread and butter. I wanted to go to Halloween in the Castro, but Patrick convinced me to stay home instead. We watched Simpsons Treehouses of Horror 1 and 2 with popcorn and homemade chocolate chip cookies. Remapped the keyboard shortcut for going to the Spotlight inputline in OS X from Up Arrow to Minus Sign On The Numeric Keypad. Since Spotlight lives in the upper right corner of the screen, it makes sense for me to remap an infrequently used key at the upper right of the keyboard for that purpose. (Keyboard at home is a Wave Keyboard 2 from about 5 years ago.) Weight training: lateral raise, modified barbell curl. I notice on Amazon that the Brother MFC-845CW is not expected to ship until November 16, 2006. Thanks, Amazon, for being so informative where others have failed. (PROVANTAGE.com says "backordered" which is incorrect, JR.com says "coming soon" with no date, and costcentral.com says "Availability as of 11:09 AM 10/31/06: After your order is placed, Allow approximately 2-3 weeks for delivery." which makes it sound like they have it in stock but they are just really slow at shipping.)