Thursday, June 26, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Stretches. Weight training: one-arm dumbbell row. ID Card Worker Meeting. Helped resident TT by email with computer problems. Helped student NG by email with computer problems. Helped student ML with a question about our mailing lists. Weeded the computer supplies drawer to make room for new laptop storage. Boxed up less frequently used computer supplies for storage in our storage room on the 7th floor. Asked Eric V to request a surplus pickup. Migrated 3 media files from Public Affairs's streaming server to ServInt and updated the corresponding pointers. Edited the Part D section of our website to take out old, unsupported video formats and add new ones. Troubleshot embedded video player problems. Alerted Eric D to a problem with our Flash slideshow on our homepage—it displayed twice in Safari on both Mac and Win. He fixed it in a few minutes. Agreed to help Steve K migrate the PC121 website. Installed QuickTime 7.5 for Windows. Installed OS X 10.5.3 and QuickTime 7.5 for Mac. Somehow I think I have resolved the problem I had of Apple Spotlight seemingly not indexing things it was supposed to. After installing 10.5.3 and rerunning sudo mdutil -i on for the volume I wanted indexed, I now see the blinking dot in the magnifying glass icon indicating that Spotlight is now indexing. I also changed my Energy Saver settings to put the computer to never sleep instead of (I think it was) sleep at 30 minutes so that Spotlight has more time to index after I leave work. Chatted with my mom on the phone. She called to tell me that my dad showed her our family tree in geni.com and that people have been making errors in our family tree. She doesn't have her own e-mail account, so I told her how to get a free e-mail account at Yahoo! so that she can sign up at geni.com and log in as herself to correct errors, add information, and so on. She kept asking me, "I don't have to pay...?!" and it reminded me that there was a time when e-mail wasn't free. 19 items in my inbox. Dinner at home with Patrick, Mom Ryan, Phil, and Danny. Drew was sick with stomach problems. Patrick served mango beef, warm Chinese vegetable salad, Peking duck, and steamed rice. For dessert we split the miniature pecan pie that Mom Ryan brought back from New Orleans for me. (Patrick ate his on the first or second day he got it.) Late tonight Flickr seems to be having trouble loading some images—one or more of their servers must be offline somehow. Facebook is also really slow to load, but that's normal.