Monday, January 14, 2008
At 12:31 AM today, Flickr's blog claims they are up, but my uploads still fail to complete: "Houston, we have a problem." Overdue for bed. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Linkchecking followup with Chris. Quick faculty page edit for Susie. Print pub review for Susie, which resulted in us deciding that we no longer specify "http://" in conjunction with URLs in print publications. The web has been around for 15 years, so I believe that if today you can't recognize a URL without the http://, there are probably other cognitive skills that need more attention. Seven years ago, you couldn't be as certain about it, but times have changed. Prepared the truly final appendices for the self study. This took a lot of time because I had been given multiple versions of dozens of documents and could not keep track of all the changes. It wasn't so simple as keeping everything in a folder because documents originated in different applications, some changes would come in after documents had been compiled into a single PDF, some changes would come in after I had the single PDF and after I had created footers for the document, and so it was far easier to use the text changing tool in Acrobat than to regenerate all the work over again, and so forth. After only one round of review, Barbara approved the version I had built, so I did the handoff and this is now done unless they also want a copy of the final on the web which they haven't yet requested. Made preparations for Macworld. Laptop maintenance for student QT: c: drive is out of space and there's a worm on the computer. Lunch: turkey and cow sandwich with cheddar, pasta salad, hot water. We recently have 2 temps in the office helping with application processing. Temp #1 is also named Scott (Scott N), and temp #2 is named Peter. Checked in with Eric about tweaking Retrospect backups. Data gathering (attempt) for Lucia, referred her to Doug and Jina. Helped 2 students get their feet wet with website building for a student organization. Student diversity project: selected, processed, and added photos for 2 students. Overheard in the elevator: "Did you know I was in an elevator here in the earthquake in '89? Yes, the elevator stopped and I thought it was broken like everything else around here and didn't think anything of it." Dinner at home with Patrick: pig chops, leftover Moroccan carrot salad, Safeway Organics macaroni and cheese. Dessert: leftover homemade cherry almond tart with homemade cinnamon ice cream. Prepared packages for mailing.