Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Breakfast: small bowl of granola with sliced banana; 8 ounces of tomato juice. Rode Muni to work. Bought doughnuts and milk. Surprise office party. Web content meeting with Cindy, Shirin, and Danielle: careers and other pages. 1-on-1 conf call with Michael. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Quickly tested a survey to the Communicators group for Karen G. Prepared and sent a list of new open issues to C3. Lots and lots of calendar management and scheduling (new training with C3). Submitted a surplus pickup request. Lunch to go from the cafeteria: made-to-order tuna sandwich. IPQB work with Eric. Web updates for Shirin: info day. ICRD work for Rodney. Copied new copy to Asana for Susie. Sent John K links to the SOP IT wiki. More SOP IT wiki work: Qualtrics. Small communicators group website edit for Jeannine C. Strategic plan milestones edit for Susie and Joe. Followup with Ray C about his headless workstation in our office space for testing. Submitted a ticket to DLS to set up the new computer. Followup with a student request from August. CPFM picked up my old Mac Pro today to deliver it to Laurel Heights. That must mean that OEIS has received its delivery of three monitors from Laurel Heights. Asked Eric to send the HDMI-to-DVI adapter he has to Frances in interoffice mail. Followup with ITS about getting access to the MCCA download site. Followup questions for Cindy for the empty workspace. Picked up Chinese food takeout from Andy's Restaurant. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Andy's fried rice, chinese broccoli in oyster sauce, three ingredients, shrimp with snow peas, wor won ton soup. Patrick's fortune: Don't give in to cynicism. My fortune: Everyone agrees you are the best. Recharge Spa work for Drew. Just for the record, regarding the problem I reported to Seamless about reviews being truncated to 2,049 characters without warning, I received this reply on April 7, 2012: "Thanks for writing to us. My colleges and I have absolutely no explanation for the reviews character limit. Since this is something we do not deal with on a consistent basis or any basis really - What I'd like to do is forward your request to our Partner Relations Team so we can get an explanation. I hate to pass the buck, but I want to ensure your concerns are resolved in an appropriate and timely manner with the appropriate department." and this reply on May 20, 2012: "Thank you for your email. I apologize for the delayed response. I apologize that you haven't heard back from us. We're still waiting on an update from our partner relations team. Once we receive an answer we will follow up with you. Thank you!" and this reply on December 25, 2012: "There may be an update in the future to provide a better warning system before the character limit is approached. The reviews and ratings system in general is being looked at carefully for several improvements. Sorry there isn't a specific timeline, but we do appreciate your input and this was passed along to our Product Managers back at the time of your original email. Kind regards." I have not heard from them since.