Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Breakfast on the run: grapes. Walked up to campus with some pharmacy students including CA. Listserv setup for Kendra, Lucia, and Helene. Documents review for Cindy. Set up job posting e-mail template for Cindy. Student computing committee work: EDUCAUSE survey. Five web edits for Cindy. Installed Audition 1.0. Noise reduction and podcast preparation. Ordered computer supplies. Fixed Chris's new laptop so that he can control power options even as a limited user. Filed for reimbursement. Met briefly with students JN and QT. Time zone updates for nearly all office computers. I learned from Rebecca a couple of weeks ago that there's a Year-2000-esque issue coming up in March because the United States government changed when daylight saving time is to begin. Instead of it starting on the first Sunday in April, it's now going to start on the second Sunday in March. Any electronic equipment, operating systems, and software that hasn't been updated might handle this time change improperly. Patches for lots of software already exist—just search Google on daylight saving time 2007. Today my Vista computer would not wake properly from hibernation. Or rather, the display (a Samsung SyncMaster 940T) wouldn't wake up. Manual backups for PharmAdMIT. Made a copy of my Xubuntu 6.06 desktop cdrom. I missed Dane's OS X imaging class, to which I really wanted to go—maybe next time. Lunch: panda bowl from Panda Express with chow mein, vegetables, and mushrooms with chicken. A corny dinner at home with Patrick: organic soft corn tacos, corn chips, corn on the cob. Dessert: leftover coconut cream pie. Watched Heroes episode 12. Early to bed.