Monday, April 16, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Repositioned Chris's mouse cord. More help with student GR. ERF work. Reset the password on the key cabinet. Learned about RJ-45 naming confusion and 8P8C on Wikipedia—I never knew! According to Wikipedia, when people work with ethernet cables, it's more correct to call the connectors 8P8C rather than RJ-45. Everyone says RJ-45, but technically this is not correct. After reading this, I realized I encountered a problem similar to this but didn't understand it at the time—when we moved into our current offices I remember there was confusion over telephone cables not fitting as expected. I figured, how hard could it be? but now knowing how many different connector standards there are it is not surprising at all. Archived data and documents. Attempted to purchase computer hardware from Cyberguys, but temporarily abandoned my shopping cart—something wasn't working right (and I can't recall what that was now one day later). The Cyberguys website almost always works properly for me. However lately whenever I do a search on the home page it comes up with the home page again instead of my search. When I do a search again, it works. Weird. Campus errands. Lunch: takeout from the cafeteria with Joel. Chicken marsala with brown rice, grilled vegetables, dinner roll with Promise. Helped Chris set up his Treo 650 to synch with Outlook on his new MacBook Pro. Brother network scanning troubleshooting. Watched DVD extras for Spider-Man 2 (2004). The behind-the-scenes documentary was really well done. The only part I didn't like was when people started talking about how great it was to work with Sam Raimi. I admire Sam Raimi, but I don't need to hear people who worked with him say it over and over again. That should have been burned to DVD as a gift to Sam Raimi at the film opening or launch party or something, not released on the film's DVD. In other words, only one person needed to see that, not the millions who bought or rented the DVD. Lots of DVDs have this style of filler ("Oh, it was such a joy to be working with [insert name here] because [insert reason here]..." and "[insert name here] is so amazing because [insert reason here]"), and I don't find it enjoyable to watch at all. But otherwise I thought the documentary was really great. Filmmakers: leave out the self-praise, please! It's unbecoming!