Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Confirmed that I'm unsubscribed to library job listservs that I had gotten subscribed to because of our recent job posting, confirmed that those postings had expired or were removed. Appointment scheduling. CCD work: policies and procedures. Lunch: tri-tip cow sandwich from the chef station at the cafeteria, added lettuce and tomato from the salad bar. (It's not clear at all that you're permitted to add salad bar items like that without being charged extra.) Job postings form work: ripped out reCAPTCHA and inserted another captcha system. Today ends a long saga of me trying to get reCAPTCHA working. The problem was that upon submitting our form with the reCAPTCHA there would be a long delay of about 30 seconds before the form was successfully processed. When I removed reCAPTCHA, the form took 2 to 4 seconds to process. I went back and forth among reCAPTCHA support and my web host support and UCSF OAAIS DNS support. reCAPTCHA support claimed that the web host DNS was configured incorrectly which caused the delay, web host support insisted the DNS was configured correctly and claimed the reCAPTCHA code was making an incorrect request, and UCSF OAAIS DNS support claimed that we failed to prove that the problem was on his end. I would have loved to have been able to support reCAPTCHA, but I could not get it to work without the long delay, and I found that unacceptable. I was not able to conclude who was wrong or right. If I had more time or began another project on a different web host then I might try reCAPTCHA again. I switched over to the new captcha in about an hour. It does audio and doesn't visit outside servers like reCAPTCHA does. It seems to work fine, and it's open source as well. For security, I won't say which one I'm using, but if you ask me privately and if I know you, then I'll tell you. Now we're back to 2 to 4 seconds—much better. Sorry, reCAPTCHA! Met Kaiser recruiters to help them set up for an informational meeting for students. They forgot to bring their laptop, and our tables were set up in the wrong place, but I moved the tables and everything else seemed to go smoothly. Dinner at India Garden with Patrick. We attempted to go to the free event called Lost Landscapes III: Film Fragments of San Francisco, but it was sold out and we were turned away at the door. Home. To bed early.