(r50) DuckySherwood < Main

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   * Name: DuckySherwood
   * Login Name: duckys
   * Email: ducky@webfoot.com (or duckys@cs.ubc.ca -- it should get forwarded)
   * Phone: 604/376-9690
   * Department: CS
   * Comment: 

---++ Personal

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(While my beloved husband usually has a beard, you can see what he looks like without one in the picture tacked up to my cube wall in the above photo.)

Last year, I spent way too much time on my [[http://maps.webfoot.com][U.S. Census Bureau / Google Maps mashup]].  This term, I am working for Gail Murphy on task-directed collaboration tools.

You can also check out my [[http://www.webfoot.com][rusty, creaky Web site]].

---++ UBC Goals
I want to 
   * learn the canon of CS classes: <strike>operating systems</strike>, <strike>compilers</strike>, <strike>HCI (344)</strike>, DBs (504), AI (502), graphics, and <strike>programming-language-of-the-week (511)</strike>.  Design of Experiments (MATL 484(?)) and more stats would be nice, too.  Heck, fluid dynamics would be nice, too.
   * gain domain knowledge in a commercially useful area
   * get certification
   * shake the rust off of my programming skills

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---++ UBC academics
   * [[https://www.elearning.ubc.ca/home/index.cfm?menuClicked=2/&p=main/dsp_webct_index.cfm][WebCt]]
   * [[https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main][registration site]]
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~parker/idrg/][IDRG]]
   * DuckyHomework (including research)


---++ Useful research aids
   * [[http://www.citeulike.org/post][CiteULike]]
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/reading/][CS reading room]] and [[http://www.library.ubc.ca/][UBC lib]]
   * [[http://scholar.google.com/][Google Scholar]]
   * [[https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false][refworks login]]

   * [[http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=719][INSPEC]]
   * [[http://www.emailresearch.org/][Jacek's email biblio]]
   * [[http://www.webfoot.com/advice/emailBiblio2005.html][Ducky's email bibliography for CSC236]]
   * [[http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.biblio.html][my biblio]]
   * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page][wikipedia]]
   * DuckysEmailArticleCollection
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Teaching/latex_tips.txt][Kevin Murphy's Latex page]]
   

---++ Useful CS dept stuff
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/rr/][reading room]]
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/grads/][grad page]]


---++ Useful other stuff
   * [[http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/gcds/content.cfm?Action=weeklydinnermenu][dinner]]
   * [[http://grad.econ.ubc.ca/green/residents/][phonebook]]
   * [[http://grad.ubc.ca/gradpd/][grad professional development]]
   * ElainesCookiesRecipe

---+++ Border wait
   * [[http://maps.webfoot.com/pers/borders.php][brief table]] based on [[http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/ATIS/index.htm][CA DOT webcam (looking south)]]
   * [[http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/general/times/menu-e.html][best table (CA)]]
   * [[http://www.borderlineups.com/][borderlineups.com]]
   * [[http://apps.cbp.gov/bwt/index.asp][table (WA)]]
   * [[http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/border/][WSDOT webcam (looking north)]]




---++ To check out later
   * http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode
   * http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php


---++ Projects and papers TBD for external
   * Fix up, release multipong (over break?)
   * Email cartoon paper -- find at least one co-author: Russell, Nardi, Metcalf?  MacLean or McGrenere?
   * to-do list manager
   * [[http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&cof=AWFID%3Ae3361787637b10b0%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.makezine.com%2Fimages%2Flogos%2Fmake.gif%3BLH%3A66%3BLW%3A165%3BBGC%3A%23FFFFFF%3BT%3A%23000000%3BLC%3A%230000CC%3BVLC%3A%230000CC%3BALC%3A%230000CC%3BGALT%3A%23008000%3BGFNT%3A%23000000%3BGIMP%3A%23000000%3BDIV%3A%230000CC%3BLBGC%3A%23FFFFFF%3BAH%3Aleft%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.makezine.com%2F%3B&domains=makezine.com&q=%22ipod+linux%22&btnG=Search&sitesearch=makezine.com][ipod linux make]]
   * [[http://www.passingnotes.com/index.php/category/articles-papers/people-sources/][human capital]]
   * [[http://www.carlotaperez.org/][book on tech bubbles]]

---++ TWiki stuff
In a previous life, I did a lot of stuff with TWiki.

Showing that you can embed arbitrary HTML: <font color="red">red font</font>, <strike>stuff stricken out</strike>.

Here's showing that you can automatically create indices based on topic keywords -- here is a list of all the pages with "tips" in the title:
%SEARCH{ "tips" scope="topic" nosearch="on" nototal="on"  web="all" format="   * [[$web.$topic]]" }%

See TWiki.FormattedSearch and TWiki.TWikiVariables#VarSEARCH for more information on how to make autoindices.

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Topic revision: r50 - 2007-08-25 - DuckySherwood
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