Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Helped Cindy with a hidden "message size exceeds size limit" error message. Followup with student LH about listserv confirmation not received problem. Comm edits, sent 911 to Cindy for review. Answered a kiosk question for Liane W by telephone. Infrastructure committee work. Chatted with Rodney. Lunch from the cafeteria: morrocan couscous, cornbread muffin, side salad, hot water. Met with Jeff K and CBW about a photo slideshow setup for a forthcoming event. Continued setting up Windows 7. Facelift project work with Eric D: fonts preview, added the fade delay on the megadropdown hover. Dinner at home by myself: leftovers. Dessert: leftover black forest cake. Here's something I commented on in Facebook recently about Apple Magic Mouse: "At work I have 2 shared office laptops using Boot Camp almost all the time, so buying Magic Mouse for these laptops means a loss of functionality over older, less sophisticated, scroll-wheel notebook mice because people currently aren't be able to perform multi-touch scrolling in Boot Camp. So, e.g., instead of buying Magic Mice I would purchase scroll-wheel notebook mice from Kensington or Logitech instead. Our office is not yet comfortable with completely switching to OS X instead of Windows, and if it were, we could just use Magic Mouse with OS X and this wouldn't be a problem. Other people might not see mouse-wheel or multi-touch scrolling as a requirement, but I do—I have watched people who don't use mouse-wheel scrolling and cringed with pain because I know that having the capability and the knowledge to use it is so empowering and productive. I think that if Apple wanted to sell Magic Mouse to me, it should have provided drivers which support all its features in Boot Camp, which is clearly a supported feature of its current operating system. It still has that opportunity, and until then I shall wait."