Friday, May 15, 2009
Shower. Usual oatmeal breakfast. My iMac crashed last night while running a Time Machine backup and also completing a large copy operation from my computer to an external hard drive. Cold restart. No clues in Console as to the cause, deleted the incomplete file and restarted the copy operation. To work. Hunted for photos for Devi and Marie. Handled an IDAF request from Claire L. Prepared a ticket for DLS to install required RSI prevention software for all our office computers. Legal name change work. Lunch: leftovers. Coded a symposium notice for the home page, sent it to Susie for review. Eric D and I did Drupal work: installed Views and began prepping a secondary page template. I spent a lot of time trying to get the CSS to behave as I expected especially regarding a vertical line between a first column and a second column that needed to run the entire length of the div and I finally got it working but it's not perfect and I really did want to just give up and use tables. But YAML seems to have a template that might work, so I will try that out next week. Web efficiency survey for Susie. Snack: chewy granola bar. Dinner at home with Patrick: pankoconut fish, asparagus risotto, leftover pizza. Watched From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Here's the note I left for my Netflix buddies: "This satirical homage to vampire horror films was surprisingly funny. You'll be in suspense, then say 'Ewww!' then laugh your head off. A masterful screenplay, with mostly excellent performances."