Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Management work followup. Adjusted firewall settings. Prepped order of new laptop for the office. Had to restart Windows Vista because of an error: Windows Installer stopped working. Printing problems: Xerox Phaser 6200DP says it needs a new black ink cartridge, so I install one and then it hums for a bit and then says it needs a new black ink cartridge. I tried a few things, but nothing worked. Handed off to DLS for resolution. Discovered EveryBlock via Webmonkey. EveryBlock gathers information related to the neighborhood you specify and shows you what's going on. First look: very impressive. Showed Eric V more Flickr features: Organizr, guest pass. Learned that you can create a guest pass for a private set but the people you send that guest pass to don't have access to the built-in printing options like Qoop. This is true whether or not they have a Flickr account. One suggested way around this problem is to have people add you as a contact and then you add them as either family or friend and then grant printing rights to friends or family, but the problem with this approach and what we're doing is that we have 500+ students—how can we be certain that any particular person is who she says she is? That's probably not problematic, but it's not secure enough for our needs. Instead, we'll tell students that they can use the All Sizes button to download the high-res version and print it themselves or upload it to their favorite photo printing service. Lunch with Joel at Nan King Road Bistro. Computer maintenance for student MK. Job postings application work. Installed Apple updates. To home. Dinner at home with Patrick: shake-and-baked chicken legs, polenta with broccoli and mushrooms, ciabatta roll, Smart Balance Light. Tried to get Patrick's webcam to work with TokBox but it only displayed a black box with a strip of static at the bottom. Signed up with Get Satisfaction. Posted my question about the webcam and TokBox on Get Satisfaction and got an answer within 3 minutes! Get Satisfaction was already impressive before that experience. They really understand a wider range of customer service interactions than anything else like it I've seen, and they're really smart with the latest web technologies. Computer maintenance for Patrick. Learned from wikipedia what slacktivism is. Got work screen sharing working. Resolved Patrick's LifeCam and TokBox problem by updating LifeCam drivers and also ensuring that Flash was current. Thanks, Damon B! Stretches.