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

Personal

(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 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 rusty, creaky Web site.

UBC Goals

• learn the canon of CS classes: operating systems, compilers, HCI (344), DBs (504), AI (502), graphics, and programming-language-of-the-week (511). 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

UBC academics

• WebCt
• registration site
• IDRG
• DuckyHomework (including research)

Useful research aids

• CiteULike
• CS reading room and UBC lib
• Google Scholar
• refworks login

• INSPEC
• Jacek's email biblio
• Ducky's email bibliography for CSC236
• my biblio
• wikipedia
• DuckysEmailArticleCollection
• Kevin Murphy's Latex page

Useful CS dept stuff

• reading room
• grad page

Useful other stuff

• dinner
• phonebook
• grad professional development
• ElainesCookiesRecipe

Border wait

• brief table based on CA DOT webcam (looking south)
• best table (CA)
• borderlineups.com
• table (WA)
• 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
• ipod linux make
• human capital
• book on tech bubbles

TWiki stuff

Showing that you can embed arbitrary HTML: red font, stuff stricken out.

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:

• BETA.TipsAndTricks
• Faculty.AdvisingTips
• Faculty.ApartmentRentingTips
• Faculty.CampusTips
• Faculty.DocumentEditingTips
• Faculty.GeneralTips
• Faculty.GettingStartedTips
• Faculty.HomeRepairTips
• Faculty.HouseBuyingTips
• Faculty.LandedImmigrantTips
• Faculty.LifeTips
• Faculty.ResearchTips
• Faculty.SabbaticalTips
• Faculty.ServiceTips
• Faculty.TabletPcTips
• Faculty.TeachingTips
• Imager.InteractionDesignReadingGroupTips
• Imager.InteractionDesignReadingGroupTipsFAQ
• Imager.TipsOnWritingACHIRebuttal
• SPL.TipsForAttendingAConference
• TWiki.TWikiTips
• TWiki.TWikiTipsOfTheDay
• TWiki.TWikiTipsOfTheDayAddNew
• TWiki.TWikiTipsOfTheDayAdmin
• TWiki.TWikiTipsOfTheDayInclude
• TWiki.TWikiTipsOfTheDayTemplate
• TWiki.TipsContrib

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

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Show tool-tip topic info on mouse-over of WikiWord links, on or off: (see details in TWikiPreferences)
  • Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = off
• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 50
• Style of text edit box. width: 99% for full window width (default), width: auto to disable.
  • Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width: 99%
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = DuckySherwood
• Set to look like an X to me (but it won't look like that to anyone else)
  • Set X =

Related topics

• ChangePassword
• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.