Thursday, May 14, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Taxo conference call. Eric D and I troubleshot a freeze problem with our DAL server and isolated it to old firmware on Western Digital MyBook external hard drives. We found a firmware update that should resolve the problem, and Eric applied them quickly to all 3 of our drives. More SSL cert install followup with OAAIS and ServInt—we're almost there. Moved supp app code into place and began troubleshooting why it's not displaying correctly. Realized there is no install file in the package of code that Jon J sent me even though he said there would be, so I sent him a message asking about it. There's still something wrong with .htaccess—must continue troubleshooting it later. Web steering lunch with John K, Kirk F, and Eric D at Nan King Road Bistro. IT services meeting. Sean S announced that our Sygate license for Windows XP will stop working on November 1. It will continue protecting, but it won't download any new updates because the vendor is no longer supporting it and we have no clear upgrade path. Mark B reported that email account upgrades for faculty and staff are in progress and should be completed around mid-June. Reconfigured listserv to begin sending me messages in email again since I can't view its authenticated RSS feeds properly in anything I try. Caught up reading listserv messages from the past few weeks—there were a few things I missed. Wrote a draft response to Susie's web efficiency survey and sent it to Cindy for review. Dinner at home with Patrick: pizza, salad, hot water. Chai tea over content review, IA, and layout work for Patrick's forthcoming website. Learned how to shrink a guest OS volume in VMware Fusion. Stretches. Cardio warmup: 10 minutes. Weight training: various. Late meal: hot nonfat milk, chunky soup. To bed late.