Thursday, August 14, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Linkchecking work: more of the same from yesterday with script adjustments. Followup with students with full inboxes. More helping of students with password change. Chatted with Eric D about some new Flash that he has produced for one of our web pages. Followup with La'Trece about a check for Monday. Reported a problem with ph.ucsf.edu to OAAIS. Web steering lunch at Crepevine with Julie B, Dave H, Abby S, Ed C, Eric D, Kirk F. Dave H made my day when he said, imitating Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice, "My Hummer runs on Crocs." Dave is really quite funny, I only just realized. CSC meetings are now called IT Services meetings. More linkchecking. Chris C is going through boxes of old stuff wondering what to keep, and he let me select some old media that might be interesting to save for posterity. Responded to student CHK who wants Outlook to connect to 2 different Exchange servers—this question doesn't have an easy answer; I need the answer to 6 questions, and then there are 5 possible scenarios. Questions:
- why do you need to issue a separate account?
- do you use calendaring features (or other features provided by exchange and not pop/imap)?
- are your people listed in the UCSF global address list?
- is there any connection with the UCSF forest?
- will the student be sending or receiving any confidential data in e-mail?
- what computing support services are available to the student in her role with your unit?
Possible solutions:
- use outlook profiles
- connect to one server as POP/IMAP
- use OWA for one account
- add alias to existing account
- transition all mail and close @ucsf.edu account
On the way out from work I ran into student RY who told me he's a friend of my cousin Fletcher. Dinner at home with Patrick: mini farfalle with shrimp and vegetable marinara, dinner rolls, Smart Balance Light. Watched Shortbus (2006, unrated) on DVD borrowed from psychobauble and Nate—we both liked the film a lot. I think there hasn't been a film as sexpressively humorous as Shortbus since P.J. Castellaneta's Relax It's Just Sex (1998), and it is in many ways a pioneer in filmmaking. Soundtrack was excellent, too. Why doesn't Apple iCal let you delete a calendar item? You can use the Cut command, but it's not intuitive (because probably every other calendaring application ever made lets you Delete an item), and maybe I don't want the calendar item on my clipboard displacing whatever was there already, huh? What happened to "it just works"? Late snack: leftover chinese chicken salad from lunch today. Stretches.