Thursday, October 25, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Helped Eric understand our guidelines for changing news stories. Opened dialog with Eric about version control now that we're both coding on the servers. Set up one of our soon-to-be-surplussed computers. It's one of our older computers and I needed a different computer to test behaviors of things in Office 2003 and Acrobat 7—our office has already upgraded to Office 2007 and Acrobat 8. Began work on the self study for Barbara. Visited Sue Abby again. Chatted with Chris briefly about Leopard. Lunch: fish and chips, a granny smith apple. Dropped off a monitor for return to vendor to Valerie's office. Ordered 6 copies of Leopard (including one for psychobauble and one for javaaddict). Helped Joel with questions about Office 2007 (paste special, compatiblity mode). Staged homepage changes for Susie (Les's symposium). Made live a special notice regarding admissions and southern california wildfires for Joel and Cindy. Installed IrfanView. Installed the RealPlayer patch. More self study work. CSC steering committee work. Dinner at home by myself: soba noodles in mushroom broth with napa cabbage, celery, mushrooms, onion, shrimp. Nothing on the web describes how the Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard 2.0 behaves with Parallels. I am guessing that it's not smart enough to automatically detect when you're in Windows within Parallels versus when you're in OS X—I'm not sure it even makes a difference with that keyboard, but this uncertainty is reason enough to give me pause in deciding to buy it. Maybe they'll have a booth at Macworld and I can try it out there. Well, since I wrote the previous sentence I read a little more about the Tactile Pro Keyboard 2.0, and I think I won't be buying it based on the many negative reviews. Matias has some right ideas but doesn't seem to have designed the right keyboard for me just yet. The Das Keyboard II is a curiosity, but it's also not for me.