Tuesday, January 9, 2007
I discovered while browsing the website of the trash and recycling provider for our neighborhood that bones are okay to go into compost, which is the opposite of what I had found in the past on several other websites discussing composting. Morning run: 5 minutes. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Student computing committee meeting. Realized that Outlook 2003 failed to start automatically this morning, so I reenabled outicon.exe and restarted and now it works as I expect. outicon.exe must be something Microsoft delivered in an automatic update that is related to startup for Outlook 2003. I don't know any more than that about it. Staff meeting—I received my award for guessing the highest number of applicants without going over—a $25 gift card to Macy's! HTML e-mail for Cindy. Lunch: salmon burger, onion rings ($6.67). Meeting with Marie, Maricar, Cindy, and Joel about the development office's activities. Dinner at home with Mom Ryan and Patrick: broccoli, corn, and rice casserole; biscuits. Dessert: one chocolate each—I had the last Chuao from Tina, and Mom Ryan and Patrick each shared one Godiva from Melissa. Apple announced iTV, iPhone, and a new Airport today. The iPhone user interface appears to be extremely elegant. However, at $500 I won't be buying one anytime soon. And I really only wanted a phone that was just a phone. I don't care about carrying music or TV or photos with me. So maybe just phone and internet. Maybe in a few years they'll have a scaled down version that does what I want. I couldn't tell if the iTV can output to VGA or DVI—I don't have a TV and don't want one but I do have a widescreen computer monitor and might be interested in iTV if it can hook to my (or a) KVM. Backfilled data for January 5. Watched Simpsons with Mom Ryan and Patrick: Homer's Phobia. Mom Ryan stayed over tonight.