Saturday, December 20, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Installed Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista at home. Uploaded photos to Flickr. Mailing activities. Activated Windows Vista with a new activation key—it works! Landlord and rug cleaners stopped by to steam clean our rug and floor. Brunch at Chow on Church with Patrick, psychobauble, Nate. We ran into Conrad there, and he introduced us to Tim. On the way to the theatre we ran into Scott and sneeper on their way to brunch, and we said hello. Bought movie tickets. Walked around the Castro. Milk (2008) at the Castro Theatre—we enjoyed it. Pottery Barn—they bought some pillows. Stopped at their place to pick up boxes and cookies. After installing Windows Vista SP1 I found that I can no longer see thumbnails in Windows Explorer. Another way to say this is that thumbnails are missing now. Searched but could not find a quick or simple solution to this problem. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover pasta, bread, Smart Balance Light. Watched Justin Timberlake's Justified: The Videos on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Edited photos, uploaded photos to Flickr. Minor web edits for Tina: updated email address. Troubleshot copy paste problem with VMware Fusion 2.0.1—failed. The problem appears to be unsolveable and unworkaroundable. I actually have 4 problems with VMware Fusion 2.0.1: (a) Copy paste does not work between OS X and Vista, (b) the Unity feature is grayed out and unselectable, and (c) automatic cd or dvd detection does not work properly. Sometimes when I switched to the Vista window I would incorrectly get a finger pointer rather than an arrow pointer, but something changed and the problem is gone now—I don't know that I did anything to fix it. When before I couldn't fix it, a quick workaround to the finger pointer problem was to press Command+Tab, then release both keys, then press Command+Tab again, then release both keys. One other problem I have is that (d) in Photoshop sometimes there are actions that require the Control key, but holding the Control key and clicking brings up the context menu which in Photoshop in Vista is not what I want. I thought it used to be that pressing the right Control key would let you work around the problem but that doesn't seem to work anymore. (The Control key is sometimes also required for actions in InDesign and Illustrator and Windows Explorer.)