A day full of annoyances. Trying to get an authorization code to transfer
thestarport.org
out of Network Solutions Problems,
and discovering that the email they were sending wasn't getting through.
Turns out our sysadmin had installed a new spam-filtering appliance on
Monday, which of course had a new address. The DNS hadn't propagated to
Netsol yet. And the problem I was having yesterday was that the
mail server for what used to be the lab's domain when I set up my
contact info, rsv.ricoh.com
, was down. Naturally it took
until 11am or so for our admin to arrive and fix it. But by that time I'd
already changed my contact email address to point to my home address here
at thestarport.org
.
Went out at noon to Fry's (taking the fact that my ankle is bothering me
as a sufficient excuse to skip my usual walk) to buy an MP3 player. The
ad assured me that the Samsung I bought would play ogg files, and indeed
they have a reputation for doing so. Just to be sure, I checked several
other vendors (having noticed that many of the boxes had phone numbers on
them) and determined that, no, none of them played oggs.
What I didn't discover until I got the damned thing back to work was that
it's totally locked down, and will only play files if you transfer them
with Windows Media Player. So much for Samsung -- my respect for them
just went down several notches.
Actually got a little work done in the latter part of the afternoon
(mostly nailing down and documenting the encrypted blob format that
finagler's software is writing) before trying to get an
appointment with my doctor. The next available one was August
1st until I mentioned the ankle, at which point I got one for
this Friday. OK, I understand about triage. By this time it was 5:05 and
the opthalmology department was closed, in spite of the entry in the phone
directory that said the appointment desk was open until 5:30.
Back to Fry's to exchange the MP3 player. One thing about Fry's --
they'll take their stuff back for just about any reason. That's why I
keep going there.
Aside to whoever took the glass bottles out for recycling: would it have
killed you to unstack the bins and put the bottles in the one labeled
"glass" instead of just setting them down in the driveway?