Friday, May 2, 2008
Stretches. Weight training: superslow bench dip, superslow front raise. Stretches. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Forgot my wallet today, but the bus driver let me ride for free. I didn't feel guilty because far worse people ride Muni for free whereas I have a monthly bus pass for probably at least the past 60 months. Chatted with Cesar who helped me resolve the folder sharing problem I have with Sue's computer. This morning was very unproductive because a fire alarm went off and we hadn't heard of a drill for today so I grabbed the data safe and we all went downstairs 9 flights. A firetruck eventually arrived and it was very unclear if anyone with the University was in charge. We watched people walk in and out of the building. Joel mentioned that he eventually came back in and rode the elevator with a police officer who didn't prevent or caution him about returning to his office. We all eventually returned and the fire alarm was still sounding. After some time, it eventually turned off and an all clear annoucement was heard over the P.A. system. Then, not long afterwards, the fire alarm sounded again, so we all went downstairs again but this time I left the safe behind. Joel said he thinks one day a real fire will happen and lots of people will be hurt because it seems people either aren't prepared or they aren't taking it seriously or they can't take it seriously because there appears to be little organization or authority or accountability for false alarms. We have a lot of construction workers on site doing all kinds of work, and I think the construction workers accidentally set it off both times. Prepped all Flickr pages for final review and sent to Susie. Small web edits for Carol—encountered a database lookup problem because one of our faculty shares the same first name, middle initial, and last name with another similarly named person on campus. Wrote a workaround since it's not my database to fix. Prepared backing up archive files to DVD. Borrowed $10 from Joel for lunch. Lunch: Panda Express. Realized while paying that I had my cash clip so I gave Joel his money back and threw a quarter in for interest. My fortune: Resist a temptation to take shortcuts of any kind. Silverstripe is the first CMS I have seen that makes clean URLs simple to create and manage. Not to be confused with Silverlight. Web host shopping. Shopped for and placed an order for a replacement UPS for Carol. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken in 10-bean stew, foccacia roll, Smart Balance Light. Created a Facebook widget for OS X using the twistermc blog entry called "Create a simple, feature rich, Facebook Dashboard widget in 4 steps."