Friday, October 31, 2008
Stretches. Weight training: advanced side plank (2:00 each side), advanced plank (4:00). Stretches. Usual granola breakfast. To work. It's wet outside, light rain. Chatted with Joel about his blog. He wants to go live but we're still waiting on our purchasing team to resolve the problem of how to purchase the license to the image we want to use. The license costs only 1 credit from iStockphoto, and you can buy credits only in a minimum of 10 for $14. Since they aren't an existing vendor with the University, we would need to have them fill out paperwork and then have purchasing send them a check—a process that would likely take 4 to 6 weeks. Yes, we could charge this to a personal credit card and later be reimbursed (which is what Valerie S in purchasing recommended) but I personally have grown tired of giving the University what is essentially a free loan at my expense, and Susie actually forbids us to do so because she too believes that practice is unfair. Realized today that I'm tired of having to rebuild my Entourage 2008 database all the time. I don't even believe that it resolves any of the problems I'm having. Back to Joel's blog. The other choices we have are to launch now and to leave the image's spot blank and insert it 6 weeks from now or find a different image that is licensed, say, with Creative Commons. I remember looking for CC images when I did my initial design and didn't find anything that I thought worked well, but perhaps now we just need to spend more time looking. Added a reminder about daylight saving time to the current students calendar. After clearing the cache and rebuilding the database in Entourage 2008, it now correctly reflects the same inbox view that I saw in Entourage 2008 at home and in OWA. Now I have to go back and reprocess hundreds of messages in my inbox, refiling ones I want to keep, redeleting those I don't. Okay, it took a few hours, but I'm done now. I quit Entourage 2008. Log out of OWA, log back in to OWA, and now—phew!—the problem is gone! Hooray! Tested my repaired camera—all seems well. Hooray! Linkchecking: changed all occurrences of www.campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu to campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu, made edits due to the move of the Technology Store to the University Store. Update the detailed directions to our office to include links to Google Maps Street View—very helpful. Chatted on the phone with Nick M about collaboration tools. Helped an applicant download and install the latest version of Adobe Reader (version 9 replacing 5) and print form E (one checkbox was accidentally not checked). Very late lunch: Panda Express by myself in the food court, watched the rain fall down. My fortune: Pleasures await you by the seashore. Notified Michelle K and Steve B about updated Flickr guidelines. Helped student HW with a question about spam. Joel decided to not wait for purchasing and purchased the 10 credits from iStockphoto on his personal credit card. So I pasted in the template, tweaked a few settings, and now we're ready to set up our custom domain with OAAIS. Notified Susie and Valerie that they can throw out the RFO. Valerie bounced my request to La'Trece for reimbursement processing. Listserv management. Was asked to help Cesar with Mozy setup but I ended up not helping—he figured it out on his own—confusion over "activation key" versus "license key"—they're not the same thing, and we didn't yet know there were 2 kinds of keys. Gave Michelle K some blank cdrom and dvdrom media that she needed. SCWG work: reviewed MyAccess info flyer for Rebecca and Jann. Home. Went to PDD's Halloween party. On the way I accidentally got stuck in Critical Mass at 18th and Collingwood. Turned off my car and waited about 20 minutes as hundreds of bicyclists streamed by followed at the very end by a police motorcycle escort. The night was unusually warm, and lots of people were out showing off their costumes. Patrick decided to not go to the party and spent the evening with Aaron watching old films. Home late, shower.