Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Before starting my telecommute day, I read my RSS feeds while doing my morning run. I didn't know who Louie Anderson was and had to look him up on Google Images. Cousin Jeanne in Malawi says she finally received the cookies which I (checking journal...) made on November 24 and attempted to mail on November 25 and successfully mailed on November 28. I was told by the post office that it would take about a week, and I don't know what caused the delay, but I'm glad she got the cookies eventually. They were wrapped in ziploc freezer bags right after they came out of the oven, and she said they were a little stale but still edible. Finally got around to installing Colibri 17α for Windows, which Victor recommended to me a half-year ago. Will try it out for a fortnight or so. Realized recently that the Apple OS X widgets feature has the following design problem: in order to remove widgets, you need to click on the add button—it took me a really frustratingly long time to figure this out. Weight training: tricep kickback, leg lift. Recordings policy summary work. Dinner at home with Patrick: ramen with fishcake, mushrooms, and shrimp in heirloom-tomato-based broth. Dessert: Häagen-Dazs lowfat coffee frozen yogurt. Chatted with Nate. Cut my hair. Tried to fix Slickr which stopped working recently, possibly due to the demotion of my account from administrator user to limited user—when the screensaver kicks in, all I see is the slickr logo growing and shrinking in the center of the screen. Changed permissions on Slickr folders, didn't work. Changed permissions on Slickr registry keys, didn't work. Removed slickr, restarted, reinstalled slickr. Sent e-mail to Gabriel. Night run: 5 minutes. Weight training: front raise, woodchopper. Snack: yogurt.