The del.icio.us Firefox add-on provides very neat integration into the latest version of Firefox three. I like the synchronization between local bookmarks, shortcuts, etc. The “most visited” tab actually counts how many times you clicked a bookmark and updates the toolbar respectively. The only problem is that for private bookmarks like the ones that initiate javascript link calls do not update the bookmark counters.
One of my favorite links is the citeulike.org’s add to library shortcuts which initiates a javascript call containing the current url on your browser such as an overview page of a journal article. This frustrated me for a while but after “grep”-ing my Firefox profile directory for the name of my citeulike bookmark, I edited the citeulike entry in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILENAME/delcious.rdf:
<NC:Bookmark RDF:about="rdf:#$iw2hg3" NC:URL="javascript:var%20pw=window.open('http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?username=aespinosa&bml=popup&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title),%20'citeulike_popup_post',%20'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=1,resizable=1');%20void(window.setTimeout('pw.focus()',250));"
NC:Name="CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers"
NC:ShortcutURL=""
NC:Description=""
NS1:LastCharset=""
NC:PostData=""
NS2:shared="false"
NS2:localonly="false"
NS2:hash="cfbf4f27149a10bca7a44c05be12ca99"
NS2:metahash="af1dd1906f18340e4a74c20e9497ceb3">
<NS2:tag>bibliography</NS2:tag>
<NS2:tag>citation</NS2:tag>
<NS2:tag>bookmarking</NS2:tag>
<NS2:tag>research</NS2:tag>
<NS2:tag>reference</NS2:tag>
<NS2:tag>academic</NS2:tag>
<NS2:tag>tagging</NS2:tag>
<NC:VisitCount NC:parseType="Integer">300</NC:VisitCount>
<NS1:LastModifiedDate NC:parseType="Date">Tue Jul 03 07:49:43 2007 +000000</NS1:LastModifiedDate>
<NC:BookmarkAddDate NC:parseType="Date">Tue Jul 03 07:49:43 2007 +000000</NC:BookmarkAddDate>
</NC:Bookmark>
The code entry above shows the XML entry for a bookmark. Simply change the “NC:VisitCount” tag to a very high value and it will appear at the top of your del.icio.us toolbar most-visited tab.
Enjoy your new favorite bookmark!
The past few weeks was very tight as I preparing from my resignation as an instructor in Ateneo (and attending parties). I will be joining the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago for my graduate studies. My work will be on grid computing and distributed computing under the supervision of Dr. Ian Foster, the father of grid computing himself! He is also one of the founders of the Globus Toolkit project, the key middleware in every grid deployment in the world.
This blog site will still be up and maintained but my faculty page and ECCE wiki page will not be updated as much for the next six years. Below is my new contact information:
So if you’re around the Chicago-Hyde park area, drop me an email and let’s meet up! 
I got this from my Make Magazine subscription. Ironic Sans made these cool scientist Valentine’s day cards. Check them out:
Now go out and spread that scientific love! 
Link to post: http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_scientist_valentines.html
I have decided to separate my personal (actually it’s more technical and highly niched) blog to my academic pages. The following are the other pages that I maintain:
- Course pages-separating the course page into a more structured manner and editing with low level access allows me more flexibility in terms of organizing content per course. As a non-mouse person (some one who does not like moving the cursor very much), I find coding a few lines of html easier than going all through the menus of Wordpress’ page manager. A snippet of my research interests and publications are also included in the page for people to see what I have been working on for the past few years.
- Research page-As of now, this page basically contains my faculty profile with respect to the ECCE deparment site. I decided to post most of the updates of my research work such as publications, slide presentations here so that the department can easily reorganize content of the entire site. Plus a wiki structure provides facilities for internal groupware collaboration. Thus we can easily fork internal proposals into full-length presentations for public consumption.
Another feature in my research and course pages is the integration of online document and presentation viewers. No need to download the entire presentation for a preview! Most of the presentations in the pages above either came from Google Docs or Zoho Office. I used the prototype AJAX libraries to asynchronously load the presentation on my pages. I hope to give a more pleasurable user experience for people visiting my course and research pages.
Last November 18-24, I went to three research meetings and conferences in Taipei. My travel expenses were shouldered by the ONCO-MEDIA project while my hotel accommodation was sponsored by the ICT Asia seminar program. Both funding sources came from the French government. I just love being an academic!
I traveled via Cebu Pacific to the Taoyuan International Airport. Delegates were fetched by the organizers from ICT Asia. When we were going out the compound of the airport, I saw a very interesting name for a courier service in Taipei: Pinoy Express.
It took almost an hour to reach the city. Our hotel, Academia Sinica Activity Center was located in the outskirts of Taipei. This made the trip even farther. The institute is a very big compound. It consists of various research centers from environmental science to high performance computing. Below is a view from inside my room:
I will post later in detail what transpired during the conference like Ateneo’s presentations, the very impressive networking activities. Pictures will also be posted showing sights and sounds of Taipei.
Recent Comments