Monday, October 13, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Worked on Danny's website: online booking via Spa Booker goes live at 7:51 AM. To work. Forwarded a pubmed help request to Kirk H—I don't know who should handle it and the library doesn't provide an e-mail address for support requests—only a web form. Realized that our website was the first school homepage to validate against W3C, so I added that to our private list of web firsts. Even today, nursing is the only other school whose homepage validates, and grad division is oh so close—they just need to put in 3 alt tags for images and then I think it's good. Tried to make photocopies for the first time in years, and someone is using it when I get there—not a big deal, I can wait. Reposted fall elective final schedule for Lucia. Followup on IRC orientation headshot photos with Eric D. Noticed today that Google Maps Street View now covers our home—it hadn't before when Street View first launched. In fact, it appears that Street View now has almost all of San Francisco covered. Some chunks are still missing—parts of the Richmond, India Basin, Hunter's Point. Nice job, Street View team! Quick lunch at the cafeteria by myself: chicken marsala over noodles, steamed carrots, dinner roll, pog juice: $6.44 after 66-cent Fastpay discount. Listserv management. Email address change process followup. Flickr group management. Web team meeting with Susie and Eric D. To home. Took photos of the full moon over Parnassus. Small web edit for Danny's website. Couldn't figure out why my mouse doesn't work in Plex. Found the release notes that say it's disabled by default, but couldn't figure out how to reenable it. Weird and annoying. Dinner at home with Patrick: orzo with corn, broccoli, and Italian herbs; grilled pig chop; baby beets. Used iTunes 8 for the first time to burn Patrick a gapless CD of his music—it worked! But then I tried using Genius and it told me over and over like 20 times "Genius is unavailable"—no matter what song I selected Genius was unavailable, even after I updated using Store > Update Genius. The Genius sidebar works, tho, and is interesting.