Author Archive
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Yahoo!
I am visiting Yahoo! Research on Thursday, June 28, 2007. The slides for my talk are available here in both ppt and pptx format.
In this talk I cover some recent research I’ve been doing on the role of copying in the production of web mashups. I talk about the Yahoo! Pipes system and it’s “cloning” [...]
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
My house is full of Wii again!
I got a new Wii today! Replaced the stolen one… only took 2 months to find a Wii in stock. Anyway, the new Wii number is 6806 5821 7727 9940 if you want to join my Mii Parade.
It was totally random luck (or maybe fate) that we got the Wii. By a random set of [...]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
youtube… toilets… wasting time
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 [...]
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
More Library Hacking
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. [...]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
UIUC Bookmarklet
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 [...]
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
CSCW 2006
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 [...]
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
27th Annual Symposium of the SIG-CAM
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 [...]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Multiple contacts on DRADIS
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.
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
bear
here is a photo of the new dog. his current name is “bear”, it may change. i am insisting that we spell his name with lowercase letters to make him totally 1337 and web2.0 compatible.
he was rescued from a family in dubuque, iowa where he was very much unloved. his previous family left him in [...]
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006
new site
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 [...]
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