Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Breakfast at home: organic nonfat yogurt with a tablespoon of Mad River Farm Dune preserves, 2 slices of organic wheat toast with butter. To work. Meeting with Cindy and Rodney: IRC hardware and software upgrades. SEP transition followup with DLS and Vick G and Eric D. Logo request followup with Susie and student CL. Lunch at Panda Express: panda bowl with fried rice and chicken with green beans; brought my UCSF bottle of water with me. My fortune: You will enjoy a trip to Asia. Color printer maintenance. Legal request followup. Placed a security request with DLS. Reviewed the office's emergency action plan from Lucia. More SEP transition followup. Researched virtual desktop infrastructure at other educational institutions. Dinner at home: organic tofu and organic refried bean burritos with sliced mushrooms and scallions, hot water. Researched Seattle things to do for the forthcoming trip. Reenabled extensions in Firefox. Reinstalled Sophos for Mac. Began a full scan in Sophos. Supposedly this will help me find files that are corrupted and cannot be read, which will help me determine if any such files need to be restored from backups earlier than 2 weeks ago when I started having the gay beach ball of death problem that was caused by a defective hard drive which was recently replaced under AppleCare warranty by Apple. Reinstalled the OS X developer tools, confirmed that /usr/bin/setfile was restored. Left the following feedback for Apple on my recent Apple Store Genius Bar experience: "I struggle a bit handling the weight of a 24-inch iMac, and the box is not designed well for a single person to move it from a parking lot to an Apple Store. My guess is that the designers have not actually tried this themselves nor was it part of the usability testing. My hack: I added 2 strips of clear packing tape to the top edge of the box, which prevents the lid from popping open when lifting by the handle and helps a great deal. It would be nice if for heavier equipment like this you offered a cart or skateboard of some sort that could be borrowed and a notice thereof in the appointment reminder. Older customers in particular would appreciate that." Late beverage: cold organic lemon mineral water with corn syrup. (I threw out my homemade simple syrup because I thought it had gone bad, haven't had time to make more.)