Thursday, October 23, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Walked part way to work. Cardkey followup for student DB. Responded to a request from Susie and Mary Anne for guidance on responding to a media story which turned into a discussion about blogging. Lunch: leftovers. SCWG work: RCO migration followup. Today Excel 2008 repeatedly gave me annoying "Not enough memory. (OK)" error messages. This is the only application in OS X that ever tells me I'm out of memory, and I'm only working with a simple spreadsheet with simple data. To work around this problem I opened the same spreadsheet in Excel 2007 for Windows. More cardkey followup for student DB. CCD work: incorporated info from Matt E. Web updates to PHPM for Carol. At the suggestion of student RE, I created a new web page which lists conferences of interest to PharmD students. More cardkey followup for student DB. Asked Kirk H and Nick M for Outlook 2007 setup instructions because OAAIS is not able to provide them. Followup with student NG about ZoneAlarm. Reported the following problem to OAAIS:
The Back button does not appear when using IE7 with vpn.ucsf.edu. Steps to reproduce: Open IE7. Visit vpn.ucsf.edu. Log in. Select the link called UCSF Library. Actual: A new window pops open but no Back button is available in the window. Expected: A new window pops open which includes a Back button in the window. More info: The problem does not happen with Firefox 3.0.3 in Windows, Firefox 3.0.3 in OS 10.5.5, or Safari 3.1.2 in OS 10.5.5. This is problematic because after browsing links in the new window users who aren't familiar with keyboard shortcuts for Back (Backspace and Alt+LeftArrow) don't know how to go backwards in their browsing history. Thanks!
Dinner at home with Patrick: grilled pig chops, steamed string beans, ciabatta. Worked on Danny's website. Weight training: superslow modified preacher curl, superslow hammer curl. Stretches. Attempted to but failed at resolving a problem in which Sophos has normal status (all current) but Windows Security Alerts in Vista reports that the anti-virus software is out of date. Removing and reinstalling with the latest installer did not resolve the problem. Organized bookmarks. Have gotten to love the Foxmarks bookmark synchronizer.