Thursday, July 31, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Sent outreach restructuring to Cindy for review. Mid-morning snack from the cafeteria: couscous salad, V8. Chatted with Susie about a request from an AVC. Chatted briefly with Frank M about a computer (not mine). Web edits: city tours, camping trip. Installed PharmAdMIT 2009 on 4 computers, configured it on one. Late lunch: roast turkey, stuffing, gravy, stir-fried vegetables, dinner roll, Promise, POG juice. James joined in unexpectedly, and we had a pleasant, short chat. Installed Cyberduck 3.0.1 for OS X. It now claims to support WebDAV but I couldn't get it to connect to our WebDAV server. Web edits: CP 147 and intern licensing links for Chris. Prepared for Mozy Pro renewal: got a quote from Ed F, prepared an RFO for Cindy to sign. Helped Peter L with his server connection. Followup with Kraig K and Sergiy P about changing display names in Active Directory (I can no longer do it—not authorized). Discovered some visually beautiful but semantically empty (or meaningless) diagrams of Web 2.0 concepts at futureexploration.net. Dinner at home with Patrick, Thomas, Hao, Sandip, and Conrad: fantastic roast chicken; mixed green salad with mozzarella, mint, peach, and proscuitto; baked carrots with cumin, thyme, butter, and chardonnay; assorted breads; flourless, Jamie Oliver's 2-nuts chocolate torte with organic vanilla bean ice cream. We talked about solar science, cellphones and cellphone behaviors, strange eating habits, Catholicism, Jewish families, couples interaction, the effects of technology on social behaviors, and so forth. I didn't know Usenet died until I read psychobauble's blog.