Thursday, October 30, 2008
Woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't sleep. Laughed uncontrollably at postings on Fail Blog. Back to bed. Woke again around 8. Usual oatmeal breakfast. I'm still laughing to myself while imagining scenarios for WonderlandPhone, and I realized today that one could also do horror or horror comedy situations. A more lampoonish but business-appropriate example: the virtual workplace caught on fire because someone was smoking a virtual cigarette in the virtual copy room, but of course every virtual employee has studied his or her virtual disaster plan guide and the demo can show how everyone got out of the virtual workplace safely. In particular, I envision graphic designer Marc with a brand new Mac Pro needing to help administrative assistant Arturo with the 6-year-old Dell Optiplex GX240. Sun has figured out how Marc can share his CPU cycles to enable his virtual self and virtual Arturo to both exit the virtual workplace just before the building virtually crumbles. Something weird is happening with my email (still?). At work, I left yesterday with 10 items in my inbox, but when I open Entourage 2008 at home, I see hundreds of messages in my inbox. I think it's a problem with Entourage 2008 at home, so I clear the cache and even rebuild the Entourage database, but the inbox still keeps filling up with hundreds of messages. So then I log in via OWA and there too I see hundreds of messages. So I think now the problem is that Entourage 2008 at work is not properly synching my changes with the server. I see them as I expect locally at work, but they clearly (now) aren't synching. Finally was able to figure out the setup instructions for Outlook 2007 on my own and took screen snapshots of them. Next step is to revise my web instructions. SCWG work. Linkchecking. 10-minute lunch: TJ's tri-tip wrap, crackers, hot water. Returned a phone call from an applicant who had trouble printing form E. He or she had figured it out on his or her own. Outlook 2007 setup instructions work took all day, and I made them live. Chatted with Cesar about full paths to folders in VPN. Helped Chris C with a question about Word templates. OWA having problems responding. I am thinking we'll be running into crippling problems with OWA and Exchange before our Exchange upgrade due early next year in February. Went to Julie B's going away party at Solstice. Met Jason, Michelle, and Shan. Present for the celebration: Jeff M, Jeff T, Thom W, Ziggy T, David H, Rich T, and more, I think. Dinner with Patrick at Fuzio. Home. Stretches. Weight training: superslow advanced one-arm dumbbell row. Stretches.