Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Breakfast at home by myself: warm apple galette, nonfat black cherry yogurt, high fiber V8 juice, double spice chai tea with honey and nonfat milk. Had a lot of trouble with 2 Maxtor (DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y120P0) and 2 Seagate (Barracuda 7000.11 ST31500341AS) USB drives plugged into a Belkin USB hub plugged into an Apple Airport Extreme (April 2009) not being recognized (i.e., not mounting). I resolved this yesterday using the Anakin Skywalker method (but that method doesn't always work). This time I resolved it by restarting my iMac and also restarting the Airport Extreme. (Open Airport Utility, select Restart from the Base Station menu.) Telecommute day. Wrote code to automate the display of a hyperlink to the School of Medicine non-block electives on our current students page and our schedules page. I set a wget piped to grep in cron (every 30 minutes between 5:00 AM and 5:00 PM, in Sep, Dec, Jan, Mar and only on weekdays = */30 5-17 * Sep,Dec,Jan,Mar Mon-Fri), then used PHP to parse the resulting text file. Noticed that calendar.ucsf.edu seems really slow just serving pages. Also noticed that the hyperlinks in the UCSF Calendar RSS feed are now working—cool. Lunch at home by myself: roast turkey sandwich with lowfat white cheddar cheese, bowl of cherries. Recoded the list of accounts page to use 2-dimensional array data structures to ease future page maintenance. Supp app installation troubleshooting. Text editor research. Dinner at home with Patrick: thin-crust pizza, tomato soup with a dollop of lowfat sour cream and 4-mm-diced lowfat white cheddar. Double spice chai tea with honey and nonfat milk. Dbanned Patrick's old Dell Inspiron 700m. Downloaded Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). Troubleshot a problem trying to invite JCB to CrashPlan Home—it won't let me specify any of the usb hard drives I have plugged into a hub plugged into the Airport Extreme. My computer can see them, but it seems that CrashPlan home cannot. Sent a message to CrashPlan support asking if it was possible. The Inspiron 700m was powered off the next time I looked at it, so I restarted dban just to be safe. Burned Jaunty Jackalope to cdr. Searched Google on webloc preview but found nothing good. Laundry. Repaired a t-shirt armpit for Patrick. Dban completed successfully. Edited a PDF in Illustrator for Drew. Today I sold on craigslist a pre-Intel Mac Mini for about 25% of what I paid for it new 4 years ago, and that was a lot more than I was expecting to get. Late meal: Joe's Os, hot nonfat milk.