Friday, April 20, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Laptop setup for student PK (from GR). Lunch: pasta primavera from the cafeteria with carrots and garlic bread. Chatted with student FP, set up an appointment. Worked on a new template for our PowerPoint presentations using PowerPoint 2007. Vacuumed the insides of Scott's and Joel's computers. The computers are 5 years old, and I realized that there's mucky dust gathered around the case vents and around the processor. Every now and then I encounter a problem in Firefox in which I am unable to type characters into any form field. Firefox behaves as though my cursor is not in the field. I have Find as you type on. This problem still occurs in Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP SP2. I mentioned this to Patrick and he told me that a long time ago I told him how to work around it—press F11 twice. I had forgotten about this workaround, so I was surprised to find my knowledge coming back to help me. Another way to describe this problem is that one cannot type text into forms. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon chicken, steamed asparagus, cous cous. Worked on Danny's website.