Thursday, May 20, 2010
Stretches. Weight training: superslow dumbbell fly, assorted advanced plank. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with organic thompson raisins, organic cinnamon, nonfat milk; 10 ounces of generic V8. To work. Followup with WeID and Sarah S with WeID problems. Our office celebrated the success of our recent graduation ceremony with a Greek lunch with food from Park Gyros—yummy and filling. Brief food coma. Mark B got back to me today on an email problem I reported on September 25, 2009: "Year 4 PharmD student PL reports that when you create an HTML email message in OWA in IE8 the message displays as expected before sending but when received it displays as plain text in many other email clients including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail. When the same message is received in OWA in IE8 and Outlook 2007 and Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition, the message displays as expected. The student also says that he or she used to be able to do this with no problem—something changed about a month ago and HTML emails created in OWA in IE8 no longer display as expected in Yahoo!, Gmail, and Hotmail.I was able to duplicate the problem he or she described. Could you please investigate this issue, determine if something about the server changed around a month ago to cause this problem, and resolve if possible, sending me any info you might have on the resolution?" Mark's reply to this problem report: "My apologies in the delay in researching this ticket. I've reproduced the problem and have contacted the email team for input on the cause." Facelift project: image credits for panels, print styles for the navigation page. Pointed student CW to ETS for AV equipment rentals. Management activities. Too tired to cook, so I had dinner at Soi Gow: pad see yew with tofu, hot tea. Muni was painful today. Bus 66 seemed to be down to 1 bus around 6:30 PM and later around 7:30 PM it didn't seem to be running at all. I waited about 10 minutes for bus 44, took it to Forest Hill. It's about 7:50 PM, I think. Next outbound L train in 20 minutes. While waiting, the voice on the loudspeakers said, "2-car L L in 9 minutes. 2-car L L in 12 minutes. 2-car L L in 15 minutes." I looked at the woman sitting next to me, and she looked back, and we both broke out laughing, rolling our eyes, and shaking our heads. "Some system!" she said. To home. House chores: took the trash out, stored dishes. Started laundry, but discovered during the drying phase that the dryer is not working properly, so I left my wet clothes in it, informed the upstairs neighbors via a note, and will call the landlord in the morning. The landlord notified me today that the upstairs neighbors are moving out at the end of June. Dessert: a chocolate chip cookie. Watched Little Miss Sunshine on Netflix DVD.