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DSC_0088, originally uploaded by M. Cameron Jones.

Our family just got a little bigger last night! At 1:02 AM on March 30, 2010, Jinha gave birth to a 6 pound 7 ounce baby girl! We haven’t named her yet as we’re trying to determine her personality. I think this photo captures her personality (if any) over the first 14 hours of her new life pretty well.

She and mom are both healthy and happily resting at the moment. More photos can be found on my Flickr page http://flickr.com/photos/mcameronjones/

My nephew Connor was baptized on 26 Oct 2008. Meredith and I are his new Godparents. Here is a picture of me with the child.
(See photo on Flickr)

My brand new laptop died today – most likely because of some flaky software conflicting with Vista. Anyway, this required a full system reformat and restore to fix. As I was recovering my files, I stumbled across some old photos from past trips. I also found this great video from my trip to Vienna in 2004 for the CHI conference.

I don’t think there is much explanation needed… it is an awesome robotic, self cleaning toilet found in the Europaischerhoff in Munich, Germany.

I get so tired of having to log into the Library website to request books. The worst part of the whole system is having to enter my 14 digit library ID number — TWICE! So, I wrote this bookmarklet which fills in the form fields automatically for me, inputting my ID number and last name. It also preselects “Campus Mail” for delivery and if you are using I-Share, it selects UIUC as your home library.

I made a generator form for it, so you can make your own bookmarklet. The generator runs entirely client-side in Javascript, so I don’t keep your ID number or anything, but you should be warned that the bookmarklet stores your ID number in plain text — meaning if someone got hold of your bookmarks, they’d be able to request books under your account and other devious things.

So, enjoy!

I wrote a bookmarklet which makes it easier to log in to the Library Gateway/Proxy from sites like ACM DL or IEEE Explore or Springer Link. You can also highlight a URL or DOI on these pages and it will generate a UIUC Gateway resolved URL for linking.

UIUC Bookmarklet <– drag this to your bookmarks.

• You can highlight a url like this http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/347642.347715 and then click the bookmark to get a library proxy resolved link
• You can highlight a DOI like this 10.1145/347642.347715 and then click the bookmark to get a library proxy resolved link
• or you can highlight none of the above and just click the bookmarklet to be redirected through the library proxy, back to the same page.

Just returned from Banff a few days ago where I was at the CSCW conference. Mike and I led a workshop on Web Mashups where we explored the implications of web mashups for CSCW. It was a lot of fun. The morning was spent hacking mashups together as a group, the afternoon was a bit more hacking followed by lots of discussion of our observations and reflections on the whole process. Some of the high-level themes that emerged included distinctions between web mashups _as_ CSCW and web mashups _for_ CSCW.

Anyway, there are photos of the workshop and other CSCW/Banff fun in the photos section.

The 27th Annual Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Cameron Jones (SIG-CAM) will take place this Friday, October 27, 2006 at the beautiful Pennsylvania Manor located at 509 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Urbana, IL. SIG-CAM is the premier annual symposium devoted to the celebration of Cameron Jones’s birth and entrance into this world. The symposium will focus on major trends and challenges in beer consumption, with a special theme of ciders and other mulled beverages. Additionally, there will be sessions on non-alcoholic beverages, and a panel on snack foods and tasty treats. We invite interested parties and experts from academia, industry, and government to attend SIG-CAM 2006.

a.k.a.Cameron’s Birthday Party this Friday, October 27, 2006 @ 6:00 PM

Map to the Pennsylvania Manor:

Get Directions to the Pennsylvania Manor

Besides Sharon, this is perhaps the only sweet Cylon — a chocolate one! Baked a Chocolate Cylon Raider cake for my birthday. Here it is.

Here it is in flight, “Look out Starbuck!”

Anyway, happy birthday to me.

Hi everyone. I am moving my site over from Joomla — granted there isn’t much there, but I was tired of dealing with the horrible Joomla interface. WordPress has quirks too, but is _much_ simpler and seems to be good enough for my uses. Now that things are easier to update, hopefully, I’ll be posting more often.

My parents got a new dog today. They signed up for a Briard rescue network and got word that there was a Briard in distress in OshKosh, Wisconsin. We had a briard when I was younger, a big black dog named Kailey (sp?). This one isn’t black — more tan/brown colored with a black face. Apparently he is very big (stands about 3 feet at the shoulder my sister tells me). My mom was fishing for name today, and I think “Bear” has stuck. I’ll get pictures tomorrow when I am up in Chicago and post them here.