Monday, February 24, 2014
Breakfast at home: maple-pecan granola with unsweetened soy milk. Breakfast on the go: an apple. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Chatted with Lucia about an encrypted hard drive. Dropped off unwanted hard drive enclosures for Rodney. Followup with Karl about image galleries build. Followup with Alan C about secure Drupal sites. Followup with student BP about automatic transcription for lecture captures. Followup with Rodney about building the IRC microsite. Redirected to ITS a question from students RS and LS about using UCSF Box with resource accounts. Posted updated P1, P2, and PSCI spring schedules for Lucia. Lunch at desk while watching a video. Leftover pot roast. Watched Ten Commandments of Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman. This wasn't his best talk mostly due to poor timing (and his frequent references to his poor timing), and the audience seemed unusually unresponsive, not seeming to notice more than a few of his good jokes, not responding when he asked for a show of hands. His subject matter seemed scattered and arbitrary and less cohesive than if he had stuck to 5 or 3 commandments rather than 10 things. He has done much better than this in the past. Made a note to check out the Keen flagship store the next time I am in Portland. Documented how to create a fallback account in the SOP IT wiki. Various minor web edits. Made another CP one-page microsite live: ProPEPS. Dan S completed the push I requested on Friday, so I sent followup notices for this action. Prepped and partially sent a notice with wide distribution about the February 21 Apple SSL/TLS security problem. The message I sent to our student listservs failed to send; the server thought it was spam. I reported the problem to ITS. Followup with Esteban about his site review. Rode Muni home. Installed iOS 7.0.6 for my iPad. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover pot roast. Dessert: we baked two-chocolate-chunk cookies and had it with milk (Patrick) and hot chocolate with Frangelico (me). Followup message to Michael N and James J about FTS and SPS. Installed Thermodo's "companion app" on my iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6 and tested it. Annoyed that it shows Celsius by default. There are five countries that use Fahrenheit. Couldn't one conditional in their code have provided a better experience? It said my bedroom was 85.9 degrees F. The Radio Shack digital thermometer I have had for years said it was 72 degrees F.