Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Chatted with student JS who had questions about some laptop issues. Listserv maintenance. WebCT followup with Tim F. Lately when I have been shutting down Win XP inside of Fusion a dialog appears asking if I want to force outlook.exe to close even if Outlook has already appeared to close successfully. I force quit and then Win XP continues successfully to shut down. When I next start Win XP and Outlook, there is no apparent problem with Outlook. I ran Outlook /cleanprofile in an attempt to resolve this, but I don't think that that switch is appropriate for this behavior. I'm writing new web pages for our site that discuss how spam is handled. UCSF uses Barracuda spam filtering and it took a long time for me to fully understand the details of what happens largely because the user interface for the spam settings is poorly designed and poorly communicated. Barracuda works really well, I think—you just have to have the right settings. I asked Kraig what our default settings are and he said tag = 3, quarantine = 5, block = 7, and these sounded perfect to me. Helping people understand how to adjust the settings, however, is going to be a bit more complicated. Helped a student with a password lockout. Mission Bay access question from a student. Chatted with Melissa H on the phone. Helped another student with password lockout. Lunch: leftovers from last night. The office celebrated Lucia's birthday with cake and sparkling juice. Chatted with Jonny about an ICRD error message. Tested a Dell 1100 printer that wasn't working properly. Laptop maintenance for Chris: Microsoft updates, Quicktime and iTunes, Acrobat 8.1.2, repaired Mozy installation. psychobauble sent me a message today saying he got the job he interviewed for at Golden Gate University—hooray! BSOD on Chris's laptop—details later. Patrick picked me up in the car. We drove the Castro where we stumbled upon the filming of Milk but still, amazingly, found a parking space. Went to DeLano's IGA #2 where we stumbled upon Jen. We both bought flowers. We split up afterwards. Jen left for the restaurant, Patrick and I went to Cliff's where we got the only remaining mylar balloon which said Congrats! in stock. Got it filled with helium. Walked up to Thai Express where we ran in to Chris and Nate on the way and met Drew and Danny and Jen inside. Dinner was delicious. It was perhaps my first time eating there. Home. Stretches. Weight training: dumbbell bench press, front raise, wrist curl, advanced plank. Chatted briefly with Joel's friend Paul A.