Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. It's not clear that the word enaction—to mean the action of enacting—is a word recognized by popular dictionary references. Google finds only 462 publically accessible web pages in the world that use it. My attempted usage: "It only protects data since the enaction of the law." I felt this should be okay, but nonetheless I changed this to: "It only protects data since the law was enacted." Quick phone conference with Susie and Eric D about Sharon Y and Malawi and blogging. Linkchecking. Computer administration for Chris: installed OS 10.5.4, ensured QuickTime and iTunes were current, installed other Apple software updates, attempted to upgrade to the latest Flash in OS X but encountered an error: "Error creating file. 1008:5,-5000 Access denied error (OK)" and when I select OK, I encounter another message: "Install Flash Player 9 UB: You do not have enough access privileges for this installation. (OK)" but I am logged in as local admin. I've encountered this problem before and previous attempts to resolve it had failed. Low priority. On his laptop on the Windows side: installed XP SP3, restored an NK2 file from backup for Outlook, confirmed that QuickTime, iTunes, and Boot Camp were current, rechecked Microsoft Updates after restarting following the SP3 install. Installed Firefox 3.0. Followup with Devi, Susie, and Eric D regarding Flickr groups for alumni. Created and shared a web to do list in Google Docs. E-mail on your smartphone survey work for SCWG. Dinner at Danny, Phil, and Drew's with Patrick and ?.