Friday, September 4, 2009
Stretches. Weight training: superslow kneeling kickback. Stretches. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Typeface research. Coded and tested a new HTML email that was sent from Outlook 2007. What I learned: the template I made isn't perfect everywhere, but it'll do. I also tested forwarding after the receipt of the HTML email. Outlook Web Access and Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition were the worst of the bunch—completely failing to forward an HTML email as HTML—both could forward only the plain text. Next worst was Hotmail which retained the HTML but failed to properly render any of the images in it. Gmail was third-best—just some padding issues. And Yahoo! Mail was second-best—most closely retaining all formatting except the fonts were changed. I think Outlook 2007 performed the best, which is not too surprising since the message was first sent from it. Other webmail options RoundCube, SquirrelMail, and Horde were pretty miserable—they are too conservative by today's standards and should permit HTML by default (but not necessarily images) like the major webmail apps do. Picked up 2 copies of Pro Drupal Development from special order at the bookstore. Submitted timesheets. Lunch: leftover noodles with salmon, chatted with Scott E. Investigated a problem with LimeSurvey. Web edits: the associate dean page, OSACA staff page, update from the dean—geolocation. Purchasing work: Coda for Eric D, prep for Snow Leopard. Finished the leadership group photo page for Cindy. Name change followup. Patrick picked me up at work. Dinner at Harvey's with Patrick: french dip and sweet potato fries and Corona for Patrick, crispy chicken wrap with onion rings, lemonade for me. Watched part of Eddie Izzard's Glorious on Netflix DVD at home with Patrick. Resolved a home network problem. Restored all my websites to no-www Class B. Reviewed linkcheck reports. Resolved a problem with LoQu. Twice attempted to install Bluefish today and failed both times because I couldn't get Fink installed. Stretches. Weight training: sidelying 90-degree leg lift. Stretches. Patrick's replacement debit card arrived today. The bank attempted to replace it twice without requiring a signature and twice (I am sure) it was stolen by thieves who work for the post office in San Francisco. The third time they used FedEx and waived the normally $50 fee for a rush replacement, but failed to address it to both our names when I asked that it be sent to my work address. A receptionist didn't know who Patrick was, so the delivery was returned. The bank's debit card partner said they could not (would not?) change the addressee, so they FedExed the 4th replacement card to the bank who then readdressed the card in a new FedEx delivery so that both our names were on it and that's what I received yesterday. This all started because VISA mistakenly thought—for no logical reason that we could see—that Patrick's card had been compromised or was being abused. Patrick was without a debit card for 38 days and cost the bank at least the 2 FedEx shipments and the cost of generating 4 new debit cards. I don't understand why banks don't send critical documents like this requiring a signature. The DMV is the same way—I am certain that my last replacement ID card was stolen by San Francisco postal employees because the DMV doesn't send those documents in any manner that is considered secure.