Context-aware conference- November 29, 2004 Tomorrow I will be attending the local conference on context-aware computing. I am looking forward too all the talks but especially my co-advisor's because it relates the most to my dissertation (surprise...)....http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000434.html Mobile phone use, France vs. US- November 26, 2004 This graph shows where the participants of a large study have used their mobile phone for voice calls during the past year (the study was conducted in the fall of 2003). Note that since SMS had not really caught on...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000433.html Citations- November 25, 2004 Today I found (probably after everyone knew about it for months) this wonderful Google tool: Google scholar. It is wonderful because 1. you can look up anybody and find their publications and their citations(not unlike ACM library and citeseer but...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000432.html Wishlist- November 23, 2004 I might be very optimistic, but it occured to me that some people consider getting me a present in the near future (three occations are actually coming up in the next two months) so I decided to write a little...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000431.html Defense presentation- November 21, 2004 Today I realized that my initial idea of writing notes for my defense slides while writing my dissertation would have been a good idea. You always assume that because you write something yourself, it will be eternally present in your...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000430.html Pictures- November 19, 2004 My friend has this wonderful picture blog that I think is not appreaciated enough. I was honored today to have a picture that I took put on, even though she thought it is sort of cheating......http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000429.html Reception- November 17, 2004 I have invited everybody I know (pretty much) and who I know is in Copenhagen on December 4th to a reception celebrating that I can hopefully call myself doctor at that point. I opted out of the official dinner because...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000425.html New York City- November 13, 2004 New York is treating me nice although it has been raining all of my first day here. Some of the fun include translating Scottish into American to the poor taxi drivers and shop assistants who look clueless when hearing this...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000424.html Who wants to read a chapter of my dissertation- November 9, 2004 I got the 4-page committee feedback for my dissertation the other day and the very last comment said: "In its present form, the dissertation suffers from large numbers of errors, not only typographical ones, but also grammatical, syntactical or orthographic...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000419.html Queer eye for the straight guy- November 9, 2004 While explaining about a certain episode of the Danish version of this wonderfulhorrible reality show (which I only watch because I know one of the fab fives in the Danish version), a friend of mine had a wonderful idea for...http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/louise/archives/000418.html |