Thursday, March 12, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. DAL teleconference. Chatted with Eric D about image resolution and InDesign and ResourceSpace. Carbonite backup for Mac was announced on Monday and today was the first day I had to visit their web page describing it. It doesn't say how much it costs, which is annoying—the website mentions a "free trial" and the promo email I received says "risk-free 15-day trial." Sent them an email asking how much it costs. Fielded a request from Sue A about a photo she needed. Tried logging in to Google Voice for the first time and encountered an error: "Invalid request." BTS stylesheet work: screen in IE7, print in IE7. Helped JWG resolve a problem with presentation setup for our MacBook in HSW303. They couldn't find the systray icon to change screen resolution. On the phone I got them to the Display control panel, but it would be faster if I went down to the room, so I did. In Windows, I could not get the projector to recognize the MacBook. 640 x 480 x 32 did not work. Unplugging and replugging the connector did not work. More stylesheet work. Lunch from the cafeteria: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn off the cob. Laptop maintenance for the white MacBook. Restored the missing icon for changing screen resolution. Encountered the following error message when attempting to install Microsoft Updates. "Some updates could not be installed. The following updates were not installed: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB951847) x86. (Close)" The hard drive had run out of disk space, and the update repeatedly failed to install with no explanation that that had happened. I uninstalled Acrobat 8 Pro. Helped Bonnie H by documenting my IDAF affiliate screen update procedure and sending it to her. Completed screen and print stylesheet testing for both IE7 and Firefox 3. Calendar management. More laptop maintenance. Connected to UCSFwpa for the first time ever. Got it to work in OS X on our old MacBook. The process was not intuitive, but it worked. Didn't need complicated settings—just my MyAccess login and password—but UCSFwpa didn't show up all the time when expected in the list of available access points. To home. Dinner at home with Patrick: chinese chicken salad. Bought 2 half-off tickets through goldstar.com for Justin Bond in Rites of Spring at the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko on Saturday, March 21. Picked up a dormant project: restoring Flickr photos that I had lost in my last hard drive crash. I had downloaded originals from Flickr using some utility whose name I can't remember now and the files are a mess. I no longer have the original filenames, and the creation datestamps are messed up. I switched from OS X to Windows Vista because Windows Explorer provides better metadata views than OS 10.5.6 does. Sorting on the date taken field in Windows Explorer gives me the exact view I need. Stretches. Weight training: superslow tricep kickback. More photo restoration. Weight training: superslow dumbbell row, shrug. More photo restoration. Downloaded and installed IrfanView 4.23. Paid bills. Late meal: leftover chinese chicken salad. Signed up to use vark.com.