Wednesday, January 5, 2011
To work. Breakfast: leftovers from dinner last night. Linkchecking. Followup with student BS about legal name change and computer maintenance. Continued work on setting up PGP with the silver shared office laptop. Regenerated the academic calendar PDF to resolve a change that took place while I was on vacation. Followup with Eric D and La'Trece C about a warranty action on an external Western Digital MyBook. Small web updates for Cindy. Lunch: used up some Starbucks gift cards to get a mozzarella and roasted tomato panini and a chai tea latte venti. Checked in with David R at ITS, asking when they plan to begin enforcing the requirement that mobile devices must support hardware encryption to connect to UCSF Exchange for which they implemented a workaround in September 2009 to permit older iPhones to continue to connect. He says, "This items is bouncing around the Security and Policy Committee. Don't have an ETA yet." Updated a schedule for Lucia. Helped student SA set up wireless and UCSF email on an iPod touch—it took about 45 minutes—embarrassing. I had forgotten to do the ActiveSync activation, and even then the student's login and password did work as expected so I had to call ITS back. Lots of minor web updates. Preview session edit for Shirin. Installed PGP Desktop in Windows 7 (Boot Camp) and in OS X on the silver shared office laptop. All is now ready for WDE which is to be done in OS X only. Bought light bulbs at Progress Hardware. Installed light bulbs, was happy with 1 out of 3. (2 floodlights did not match the others in the ceiling.) Dinner at home: Starbucks packaged snack called "Protein": grapes, hard-boiled cage-free egg, sliced apples, white cheddar with multigrain muesli bread and honey peanut butter spread; hot water. Realized that although it does provide a lot of protein it's otherwise not a very healthy snack. Folded laundry while watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) on Netflix DVD. I had skipped seeing this film in the theatre. Snack: microwave popcorn, 3 fortune cookies from Ross Alley. 1: Your lucky number for this week is the number three. 2: You will inherit an unexpected sum of money within the year. 3: You will soon be crossing desert sands for a fun vacation. Discovered that Zara has an online store (!). (Later I realized, sadly, that the online store does not let you buy anything.) Began reading a draft of Patrick's new novel.