Thursday, February 21, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Twice lately while creating documents in a wiki called Confluence I have lost data due to a keystroke which sent the browser back one page or to my home page. Confluence attempts to intelligently recover the lost data except that I didn't notice the message which said I had a choice to recover—it's not prominent enough—and I had already started typing anew and I think because of that I ended up losing data which it might have somehow saved for me. Even when web applications have safeguards built in to prevent this, they do not work and are very frustrating. Today I believe I observed Mozilla Firefox automatically install version 2.0.0.4 over 2.0.0.12—weird! Met with student MR—password change. Computer maintenance for students DU and ML. Diversity project redesign edits. Lunch: Panda Express. My fortune: You may be called upon to help a friend. Web meeting with Susie and Rob. Student MAM returned a anti-static wrist strap borrowed from a few days ago. More computer maintenance for students DU and ML. Computer maintenance: Alyssa (same updates as the others), Joel (attempted to install Bluetooth hardware but I couldn't get it to work—long story which I don't want to go into). Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken with angel hair and vegetables in a light cream sauce, bread and Smart Balance Light. Dessert: leftover gingerbread with whipped cream from a can. Watched Ocean's Eleven on Netflix DVD with Patrick. I had never seen this film before and enjoyed it, despite its subtle perpetuation of negative stereotypes of Asian men. Roger Ebert's review is right on the money. (Ahem.) In OS X, some application called Conflict Resolver tells me it has conflicts to resolve, but when I select "Review Conflicts Now..." nothing happens. I think this is the synchronization between Entourage and iCal that I enabled in Entourage 2008, but I'm not sure—the about box says that Apple makes Conflict Catcher—I mean Resolver. Looked up Conflict Catcher in Google followed by wikipedia—no, I wasn't dreaming. I don't have a .mac account. Reconfigured Mozy to include Patrick's music compositions.