Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, slivered and toasted almonds, sliced half banana; hot water. Worked from home. Made a url change to a new fellowship page that Katherine had created. Began changing /burchard and /burchard-es to /asthma and, hopefully, /asma. Instead of using the fast and risky method, I chose the slow and secure method: create new domain, use Domain Path to make the same pages appear in the new site, recreate the menu in the new site. The fast and risky method saved only a little time since I'd still have to recreate the menu items, and I wasn't certain that other things would later break. This is the correct way, at least without mucking about in MySQL. Dean's Office Administration team meeting. Lunch at home: leftover mu shu pork with steamed basmati rice that Patrick made yesterday. Continued burchard/asthma migration work. Zhao Lab site build for Nathan D. List management in Campaign Monitor: deleted bounced addresses. (Why doeesn't it autodelete them like Mailchimp does?) Prepared to buy hardware for Joanne C. Orgchart, web page, and other edits and tasks related to Alexa T's departure. Responded to a request from Jeff P about the Savic Lab website. Updated photo credits for Jaime F in The Archive after receiving new info from Robin M. Lots more Alexa T departure work. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Patrick had veggie coconut curry with steamed rice, I had pasta primavera. Afterwards I began reviewing voting info for the forthcoming election. Lots of network troubleshooting trying to get Wiz Colors light bulbs added to Apple Home via Matter. I officially gave up after spending about 20 hours over the past several days. Today's last attempt: we deleted our home in Apple Home app, then created a new home with a different name. The lights still work—sometimes—in the Wiz app. But they refuse to be added to Apple Home app and work reliably, even in the new home. Wiz support says for the billionth time "are you sure everything is on 2.4 Ghz?" and that it's a problem with "the third-party integration itself" and "we would suggest you to update to the latest iOS version" even after I told them that everything worked fine in the past. If it all worked fine in the past, then a newer iOS version is probably not going to fix anything. I decided I will never again buy Wiz hardware, and I will never again buy smart bulbs that require being on a 2.4 Ghz band for installation. Since they still work in the Wiz app, we'll keep them despite not having the Matter integration and not having them appear in Apple Home. But we'll never buy Wiz again. On that you can depend.