changelog @ tengrrl.com: Daily Work: Update, Upkeep (fortunately not upchuck)

It's Groundhog Day, which means I am to regale my brother-in-law with "I got you babe." We have no excuse for this tradition really.

I had my update with Sharon, and went over my list of things I need to do and whatever I had questions about. It's my first update since January 6 because of various things that kept both of us from being in the office at the same time during my scheduled update this last month.

Spent the rest of the day doing various odds 'n' ends, mostly upkeep and maintenance. Updated the virus checker on the server. I'm considering buying something else for it. This version just isn't updating automatically for me in the way that I'd like. Did editing work on a 6-8 lesson on science and science fiction. We got a first draft of an interactive that we're designing in house. It will let students make book covers and dust jackets. I hope to have it live by the end of the month, but we're doing testing for now.

I am going to be nudged about the book manuscript again soon. At least that's the word I was given today. It's so hard to carve out time for it or concentrate when there are so many other things that I have to get done at work. Everything else seems to have unyielding deadlines, and as a result, I never get work on it. Sigh. I really have to get more done more quickly.

MarcoPolo has brought the LinkScan work in house. Took them a while to get things set up and configured. Yesterday we got the first report on broken links in over a month. Made my first pass through the document tonight. Because it's on a different server, we lost our configuration set-up so things that were set at exceptions are showing up as errors again. Sent out a list of the changes that I need MacroPolo to make this evening, after I had to type it twice because of Exchange server nonsense.

Thursday, February 02, 2006