Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Usual oatmeal breakfast. It was another awful morning on MUNI. I don't want to talk about it except to say that it took me 1 hour and 25 minutes to get from home to UCSF Laurel Heights and that I waited an extremely long time at Market and Castro and eventually 3 bus 24s came within a 2-minute timeframe. The headway was supposed to be 9 minutes, so this theoretically would have been 27 minutes' worth of busses, which matched what I saw. The first was completely full, of course, so I got a seat on the second one, which eventually caught up to the first one anyhow, of course—it was less than a minute behind. I had left an hour before my meeting was to start and ended up being 25 minutes late! Days like this I absolutely hate San Francisco. I spent the morning at a Distributed Computing Support and Technical Support Partnership class given by Joan M at Laurel Heights. The class was worthwhile and Joanie and Jen and I had a great lengthy chat at the end. I suggested that the IT Governance committee include recommendations regarding CSC-to-customer ratios, and everyone seemed to think that was a great idea (the audience was CSCs). Stopped by Ena's workplace to quickly say hello but she wasn't in. Lunch at Eliza's by myself: lemon shrimp with brown rice. My fortune: The longest day has an end (40, 1, 39, 4, 44, 10). Created instructions for connecting to UCSF STOR/CDS from off-campus with OS X through SSL VPN. Jen Nourse helped me figure out a solution. Chatted briefly with student NT. Lecture recordings followup with Kevin, Joel K, and Cindy. Checked in with Joel about his Stickies. Updated Cindy on the backup drive situation. Home. Patrick made me a shake with the following ingredients: peanut butter, banana, pear, milk. I tasted a few sips but didn't like it much. Dinner at home with Patrick: spaghetti and chicken boob chunks in red sauce. Chatted with Jeremy. Left a message for Drew. Processed and reviewed photos. Slashdot has a story about a security vulnerability with Firefox 2.0 and older versions in which saved passwords can be compromised under certain conditions. Checked to see what passwords I have saved, and it turned out to be none. Changed settings to be more strictly secure, did the same with Patrick's computer, and made a note to warn office staff tomorrow. Weight training: modified barbell curl, lateral raise, front raise. I've noticed today that the Flickr Uploadr is occasionally failing partway through uploads. The upload is not completed, and the photos that were uploaded are not put into a set as expected. The Uploadr is left with the remaining photos still to be uploaded, so it's not difficult to recover from this problem, but it is annoying because it used to work perfectly every time. Grrr! I uploaded 3 separate batches today, and I encountered this behavior every single time.