Thursday, April 10, 2008
Woke early. Stretches. Weight training: super slow decline dumbbell press, super slow decline crunch, regular and super slow wrist curl. Stretches. Shower. Breakfast: Cocoa granola with nonfat milk, orange juice, hot nonfat milk. Answered a question from student AP about how to connect a BlackBerry to UCSF e-mail—answer for now: use POP or IMAP. Chatted with Barbara S about student org website migrations—80 days left. Transferred Daisy training notes from the sheet of paper I had that day to my journal. Updated current students news. Reported a redirect problem to Public Affairs. Flickr work: scanned new slides, updated web pages, sent links to Susie and Eric for review. Earthquake Home Preparedness talk by Matt Springer. Websteering lunch. CSC meeting. Flickr work: created more new groups. Met with Eric and reviewed and tested Flickr work. Dinner at Sushi Time with Patrick, Mom Ryan, and Sam. It's Patrick's birthday dinner and Mom Ryan's late birthday dinner, too. Sam sent Patrick 8 birthday cards in the mail and gave him an assortment of gifts that included a dinosaur egg that hatches in the bath, lots of bath salts, and a book about China. While we waited for dinner to arrive after ordering, I gave Patrick his birthday gift, which turned out to be a Booka Shade CD/DVD set. We ate dinner, and over dessert I gave him a surprise second gift: a 70% dark chocolate bar! I said, "You should open it!" but he didn't want to eat it, fearing that his mom would eat it, but I insisted and so he did and found tickets to see Booka Shade on April 25 at Mezzanine! I hid the tickets inside the candy bar and rewrapped it—a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, an inspiration from our recent visit with Tina. Sam drove us all home. Created rules in Apple Mail to filter messages to folders. I don't like how Apple Mail doesn't "just work" when it comes to handling junk e-mail. If I mark a message as junk, I want it to disappear. Yahoo! Mail behaves that way, Thunderbird behaves that way, I never even see spam in Outlook 2007 (but probably due to Barracuda there), but in Apple Mail 3.2, it disappointingly remains in my inbox after I mark a message as spam or junk. Also in Apple Mail you cannot sort messages by whether they have the junk mail icon or not—it changes the order somehow but it's not what you want or expect. Installed Apple Software Updates and Thunderbird 2.0.0.12. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 has no feature similar to the outbox in Outlook. This is annoying because when I send a message I must wait many seconds while Thunderbird sends the message immediately rather than sending it immediately in the background or queueing it for batch sending at the next send/receive interval. I didn't learn about the Send Later feature under the File menu until after I had spent many minutes searching for a solution on the web. Supposedly Ctrl+Shift+Return invokes Thunderbird's Send Later feature, but I don't know what they mean by Send Later—the online help has nothing describing what it does. Ctrl+Shift+Return does not work on the Mac, but it seems that Cmd+Shift+Return does something. The Thunderbird File menu doesn't specify shortcut keys for Send Now or Send Later, but Send Now is Cmd+Return and I think Send Later is Cmd+Shift+Return. I think Send Later behaves like Drafts, but I'm not certain and Thunderbird Help is no help. iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.3 appears to install successfully, but returning to Software Update shows that it has not been installed—the same update keeps appearing and asking if I want to install it. My computer is still at Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B01 instead of IM71.007A.B03. Solution unknown at this time. Stretches. Weight training: super slow lateral raise, super slow front raise, reverse wrist curl. Stretches.