Monday, March 23, 2009
Warm-up cardio: 16 minutes. Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Picked up a projector on loan from clin pharm (Lilia). Alerted other web developers to last week's release of IE8. Installed IE8 into Vista (Boot Camp). Our home page has minor display problems. Secondary pages look fine after a quick peek. BTS meeting with Ingrid K, Lisa C, Maria F, Susie L, and Eric D. Calendar management. Met with Eric D and Susie L about BTS followup. Chatted briefly with Eric V about the job postings form. I made one small fix and now we're about ready to make it live. Lots of small BTS edits for Susie. Helped student BA with email connection problems. Fielded a question from Joel about email connection problems. Fielded a question from Shirin about email connection problems. Both Shirin and Joel reported long hold times with OAAIS customer support. Submitted a ticket to OAAIS about missing Web Themes for Sue A's computer. Emailed myself a reminder: "block ie8 for osaca?" Reviewed a proposed web page for Mark B. Followup with Luke T about email connection problems. Lots of small BTS edits for Susie. Helped student LS with mailbox too full. Listserv management. Unsubscribed from EMC's Retrospect mailing list. Chatted with Cesar about html email and Outlook templates and Outlook 2007 and Web Themes. Vacated my office to let a student take an exam. Late lunch: fried rice, black pepper chicken, potstickers from Panda Express. My fortune: Seek friendship and you will find it. Helped Shirin H with laptop setup. PHPM sample schedule edits for Carol. Lots of small BTS edits and styling for Susie. Helped student EG with a question about a mailing list that I don't administer. Chatted briefly with Mike K about email connection problems. Helped student PA with a question about email from unfamiliar people. Helped student JC with a question about VPN. Helped Devi V with a question about Facebook. Delivered a student photo to Chris C. Back in my office. Created Santi and Kayser html email for Sue A using Outlook template workaround suggested by Cesar. Dinner at La Mediterranee with quantum13 and Patrick. Dessert at Chow on Church with quantum13, benca, and Patrick. I asked benca about Active Directory issues in OS X and we came to an agreement that I would report unable to log in problems if I decided to start using AD again with OS X.