Title:Dilip Barman's Home Page
Description: syndication is and created www.cs.unc.edu~barmandilipRSSfeed.rss - put a feed button at the bottom of this home page linked to that rss version 2.0 file 12906: I created my first blog, my attempt to write about cultural events that I participate in! Linked it in both in top paragraphs and in bulleted list. Removed New! designation for imdb. 121605: Updated Carrboro ArtSchool link to new WinterSpring one. 12505: Added link and my results for Political Compass. 7505: After many years, finally added eXTReMe web page tracking. Removed alignright to SafeSurf and Internet Content Rating Association logos and abbreviated start month of counter to Oct. to group them together with the eXTReMe tracker image. 62005: Added an interface to maps.google.com to generate an interactive map or driving directions between two addresses. 6905: Added a new paragraph about the arts I enjoy appreciating; removed New designation for my personality test data, which I added 1299! 6705: Removed link to my working at IBM; changed big first paragraph Thanks for visiting. I am a Senior Software Engineer with IBM, working as a User-Centered Design Lead, focused on Ease of Use. I've been active on the internet since the late 1980s, and am pursuing a Computer Science Ph.D. at UNC, researching using knowledge representation (artificial intelligence) to add flexible semantics to a hypertext (think of understanding in advance what to expect when you follow a web link, for example). I have many interests and hobbies such as growing and showing roses, reading, fine film, listening to music, bicycling, and photography. I love to cook - see my chocolate baklava recipe and 1-page guides to cooking grains, steaming vegetables, and cooking reference. I have taught many classes, and currently teach through the Carrboro ArtsCenter -- my classes fill quickly, so sign up early if you're interested! I was a featured chef at the first annual Cooking Show (October 18, 2003). I am very involved in community organizations such as the Triangle Vegetarian Society (don't miss our fabulous annual Thanksgiving feast!) and my greatest discovery in the past 5 years or so, Servas, a world-peace organization that seeks to build understanding through friendship. I trust that some information below will appeal to you! and second paragraph Also, I have been maintaining a calendar of local events related to peace and justice. I am excited about an event on November 10, 2001 that I had helped to organize, co-sponsored by a dozen groups, which had four speakers discussing various approaches to peace and justice, followed by facilitated conversations in small groups. It was very successful and we hope to eventually have a follow-up event. Finally, in October, 2001, I put together a flyer on environmental justice, showing some relationships between vegetarianism and world peace and justice. Reload the page after a moment to see another of 15 random images above! to make it a first paragraph about software engineering (including adding more information about what areas I've worked in), the internet, and UNC; a second paragraph about teaching; a third paragraph about my interests; a fourth paragraph about peace; and a short concluding fourth paragraph. I added links to NCSSM and NC Governor's School, and added a link to classes I am now teaching as of this month at Whole Foods in Raleigh. I joined Servas in 1995, so updated in the past 5 years or so to reflect 10y involvement in Servas. 101904: Removed link to OS2 page as it's quite dated - but left unlinked ibm.html on site 10104: Made initial photography link to point smugmug not photo.net; added smugmug link to more descriptive photography link 92604: Added link to this year's Thanksgiving 91204: Added picture of me near waterfall in Blue Ridge Mntns 5604: Updated link to this summer's ethnic veget. cooking classes. 112903: Added picture from today with me on living room couch; put in past tense references to first annual cooking show and to our just past Thanksgiving 10603: Added link to this year's TVS Thanksgiving and to upcoming Cooking Show and moved section on cooking into its own set of a few sentences 82503: Added results of Myers-Briggs like test I took 811 at SHARE in WashDC; http:www.geocities.comWestHollywood3973, which I pointed to re: M-B, is no longer current, so found another good source, www.personalitypathways.comMBTI_intro.html, and updated URLs, plus added one pointing to a Google category for online tests. For enneagrams, graphics.lcs.mit.edu~beccaenneagram became www.9types.com; corrected those URLs, too. 71503: Updated signup for my cooking classes (offering two different ones this fall) to fall 2003 session 53103: Updated signup for my cooking class to summer 2003 session 51803: Added to set of random image a picture that my friend Dimple took of me in Golden Gate Park this past March, and picture of me with my Dream Weaver modern rose arrangement from yesterday's show 42003: Added to set of random images a nice picture my friend Brian Donlon took of me today in Duke Gardens 1703: From my set of images shown at random, removed reference to the formal Sept. 1994 one and replaced it with a new one from Dec. 28, 2002 1403: Added my 1-page cooking hints summary and link to it, as well as steaming summary; removed Thanksgiving 2002 links 111702: Added links to photo.net - I joined today and have started to upload some of my pictures there -- put link and description after recent fun things I've done and turned photography as an interest in top paragraph to a link to my photo.net page 103102: Added links to my baklava recipe and cooking with grains 1-page summary in top paragraph 102902: Late yesterday we put the TVS Thanksgiving 2002 page up, so added a temporary sentence inviting folks to it in the top area and a phrase in the TVS link 102802: Transparent update - just added code, commented out, to auto- refresh the page. I think it may be annoying, so won't do it, but may make sense in the future to help cycle through the random images. 090202: Updated the intro. text to remove reference to Global Industries old job - I work for IBM as Global Industries' User-Centered Design Lead, focused on Ease of Use. I'm working on a Computer Science Ph.D. to I am a Senior Software Engineer with IBM, working as a User- Centered Design Lead, focused on Ease of Use. I'm pursuing a Computer Science Ph.D.. Removed text about Guestbook having been down. Added cooking to my interests and link to classes I teach in Carrboro - I must remember to update signup link each session. Corrected reference to my 8 pictures to be 10. Added a search button for Google, removed all the search and Pointcast separate buttons, made Search the internet bold, added a magnifying glass icon, made all search input fields 22 characters wide, moved in from within the link (in [searchengine]). Changed my URL at bottom by the froggie from www.cs.unc.edu~barman to www.dilip.info. Added in top paragraph that I've been on the net since late 1980s. Changed environment reporting to say xx-bit colors - previously was xx bit colors. Added photography to my list of interests. Added button for business search on superpages.com (does it look okay? I may or may not keep it - I don't want the page to be search heavy). 081502: Added picture from last night in Italian cooking class 072902: Added picture of me about to cycle away from World Vegetarian Congress (WVC) in Edinburgh on July 14; added link to WVC; added film link to ScreenIt! 061602: Added some javascript to generate a random header image of me; added text telling folks to try reloading the page; changed reference to Nov. 10, 2001 event to include year and to state that sometime we may have a followup event, not this past January! 112601: Changed paragraph near top re: Nov. 10 event to use past tense 110601: Added a paragraph to the top after my intro. paragraph and before the guestbook, about peace calendar, Nov. 10 peace and justice dialogue, and my Veg. and World Peace flyer; added my new domain name (as of a week or so ago; currently mapped here to www.cs.unc.edu~barman), www.dilip.info, to top section just before my email address 092301: I had a number of absolute URLs to pages in my home page area - changed to make them relative so links work even when pages are copied locally, disconnected from the internet; corrected a typo in a link to UNC CS dept 090101: I made a number of HTML changes purely for standards, which should result in no presentation changes (except when images are turned off) while trying to validate my HTML via a tool: - Added alt tags to each of my images to help make the web page more accessible (e.g., for those loading the page without images) - Changed the paragraph tag within the top H1 to a break tag (strictly speaking, the par. tag is ill-formed there) - Added as the first line - before the html open tag - a doctype tag to indicate that this is an HTML document; I think my HTML conforms to a loose version of 4.01 allowing backward compatibility, as defined in late Dec. 1999 - Added height and width dimensions to images missing them - they all have them now, except the ones generated on the fly by a server, like the page count and current time - I had an extra closing body tag just before the page count statistics, and removed it - Moved the horizontal rule below the current time, as in Netscape 6.1, the line was otherwise going through my picture - In several instances, I had incorrect comma start tags with a blank after the excl. pt., so corrected these - I had alignabsmiddle for displaying the page count, but absmiddle isn't recognized, so I just removed the align attribute altogether there - In my javascript at the bottom, changed 'languagejavascript', which is now deprecated in favor of type, to 'typetextjavascript' - As per http:www.htmlhelp.comtoolsvalidatorproblems.html#amp, including ampersands in URLs can cause problems, so changed these references to & - Guestbook entry URLs and image references weren't quoted - I'm now almost compliant with 4.01 transitional, but one checker, validator.w3.org, gives me exactly one error, about using NOSCRIPT, but it looks syntactically correct to me! 032101: Yesterday I got a note from the guestbook folks that they fixed defective guestbooks, including mine, so I updated the annotation to say the guestbook is working again (yeah!) 010901: In top paragraph, added link to fine film; added meta-keywords 'books' and 'reading list'; guestbook hasn't been working for some time, and I added such an annotation 122500: I started a new page on books, so linked it in from the top paragraph and a new item in the list of links; removed New notation for Why Vegetarian presentation and rose page 100500: Added buttons near bottom to search Lycos, Yahoo, or AltaVista from examples I saw at http:cui.unige.chmeta-index.html; removed comments near bottom about an old counter that didn't work; added meta tag from safe surf that my site is certainly okay for all ages and SafeSurf logo near bottom; also added meta tag and logo for internet content rating association; made my email near top into a mailto: link 100200: Added link to my new 2-hour intro. to internet class 062300: Course material I was referring to was moved from what I thought was a public space; computer services pointed me to afscs.unc.eduprojectcourses190-25f97membersbarman in the local file system and I copied my directory and updated references to www.cs.unc.eduCourseswwwp-f97membersbarman to be Courseswwwp-f97membersbarman 061500: Added link to my new Why Vegetarian presentation; added a free web page search service from www.atomz.com that I discovered and signed up for tonight; finally added meta tags to describe content of my web space 030500: Changed Servas link to point not to www.servas.org, but to the TVS article I wrote about it - which, in turn, has the www.servas.org link. 010400: Added Javascript to the bottom to describe what the viewer's browser environment is 122699: Changed TVS link to our new domain, www.trianglevegsociety.org; changed this history list to be most recent change at top; removed two last UNC links to gopher resources - UNC Info at gopher:gibbs.oit.unc.edu:701 and UNC library at gopher:calypso-2.oit.unc.edu:701 - easy to find on web now; updated stock links - added parenthetic sentence that Stockmaster has been around a long time, and removed Lombard, E-Trade, QuoteCom, S and P High-Low-Close, and Stock Room links; added Bike Friday logo to link to my Bike Friday page; added a new section on personality types! Updated link to IBM page to describe it as OS2 resources and not IBM Information; Big change - created a section on bottom for old resources (this may eventually be a separate page) and moved under it Weather, HawaiiUS Travel, US Govt, Stock links, OS2 Resources, MPEG, HT'96; made NC State and Triangle area little image have border0 - if I ever create a non-white background, I'll probably want to also make this and some other images have transparent backgrounds; moved WWW link to just above Misc. link - was after my presentations links; moved friends pages link to between WWW and Misc. - was right after Local; oops - it's been years since I was in office 138, so removed that from address 112899: Added links to Internet Movie Database as a new section just below music; removed New indicator for presentations 110999: Added links to my new rose gardening page; mentioned hobbies roses, cycling, and music 081299: Added a link to Servas in intro. paragraph of text and edited the paragraph a bit 071499: Corrected TVS link www.webslingerZ.comtvs to www.inspirationtrail.comtvs; added after counter that I've had the page since late 1994; removed New indicator from Advanced WWW Programming Class link; added a paragraph of text after the current time display and before the Guest Book introducing myself 092298: Added pointers to my presentations and removed New indicator from TVS link; for HT96, rephrased to put onto the web next to papers 020598: Added link to Advanced WWW Programming class; removed New indicator for HT'96 (finally!), modified its description, and moved it from the first link to being right above AI Resources; removed New indicator for Stock Room; added TVS link from Vegetarian Resources line with a New indicator 090797: Added link to WWW Programming class I'm taking this semester 043097: Updated PointCast button with their new image 031397: Added guest book feature with button 020397: Added button to get PointCast newscast software 112696: IBM quotes are now from stockmaster, not MIT - updated links 110396: Updated counter text to include year (Since October 15, 1995) 051396: Added E*Trade link 051096: Finally got rid of that stupid big green balloon near the bottom of the page and replaced it with a beautiful frog! 050996: Finally removed under construction note and added current time display. Made stateicon image part of anchor for local info; made UNC Resources be a link. 050296: Added icons at bottom linking to Search engines 030296: Today I started working on HT'96 online proceedings and for now they're on my local pages; added a pointer 101595: Added counter finally! --
Keywords: rating association; made my email near top into a mailto: link 100200: Added link to my new 2-hour intro. to internet class 062300: Course material I was referring to was moved from what I thought was a public space; computer services pointed me to afscs.unc.eduprojectcourses190-25f97membersbarman in the local file system and I copied my directory and updated references to www.cs.unc.eduCourseswwwp-f97membersbarman to be Courseswwwp-f97membersbarman 061500: Added link to my new Why Vegetarian presentation; added a free web page search service from www.atomz.com that I discovered and signed up for tonight; finally added meta tags to describe content of my web space 030500: Changed Servas link to point not to www.servas.org, but to the TVS article I wrote about it - which, in turn, has the www.servas.org link. 010400: Added Javascript to the bottom to describe what the viewer's browser environment is 122699: Changed TVS link to our new domain, www.trianglevegsociety.org; changed this history list to be most recent change at top; removed two last UNC links to gopher resources - UNC Info at gopher:gibbs.oit.unc.edu:701 and UNC library at gopher:calypso-2.oit.unc.edu:701 - easy to find on web now; updated stock links - added parenthetic sentence that Stockmaster has been around a long time, and removed Lombard, E-Trade, QuoteCom, S and P High-Low-Close, and Stock Room links; added Bike Friday logo to link to my Bike Friday page; added a new section on personality types! Updated link to IBM page to describe it as OS2 resources and not IBM Information; Big change - created a section on bottom for old resources (this may eventually be a separate page) and moved under it Weather, HawaiiUS Travel, US Govt, Stock links, OS2 Resources, MPEG, HT'96; made NC State and Triangle area little image have border0 - if I ever create a non-white background, I'll probably want to also make this and some other images have transparent backgrounds; moved WWW link to just above Misc. link - was after my presentations links; moved friends pages link to between WWW and Misc. - was right after Local; oops - it's been years since I was in office 138, so removed that from address 112899: Added links to Internet Movie Database as a new section just below music; removed New indicator for presentations 110999: Added links to my new rose gardening page; mentioned hobbies roses, cycling, and music 081299: Added a link to Servas in intro. paragraph of text and edited the paragraph a bit 071499: Corrected TVS link www.webslingerZ.comtvs to www.inspirationtrail.comtvs; added after counter that I've had the page since late 1994; removed New indicator from Advanced WWW Programming Class link; added a paragraph of text after the current time display and before the Guest Book introducing myself 092298: Added pointers to my presentations and removed New indicator from TVS link; for HT96, rephrased to put onto the web next to papers 020598: Added link to Advanced WWW Programming class; removed New indicator for HT'96 (finally!), modified its description, and moved it from the first link to being right above AI Resources; removed New indicator for Stock Room; added TVS link from Vegetarian Resources line with a New indicator 090797: Added link to WWW Programming class I'm taking this semester 043097: Updated PointCast button with their new image 031397: Added guest book feature with button 020397: Added button to get PointCast newscast software 112696: IBM quotes are now from stockmaster, not MIT - updated links 110396: Updated counter text to include year (Since October 15, 1995) 051396: Added E*Trade link 051096: Finally got rid of that stupid big green balloon near the bottom of the page and replaced it with a beautiful frog! 050996: Finally removed under construction note and added current time display. Made stateicon image part of anchor for local info; made UNC Resources be a link. 050296: Added icons at bottom linking to Search engines 030296: Today I started working on HT'96 online proceedings and for now they're on my local pages; added a pointer 101595: Added counter finally! --
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Dilip Barman's Home Page
Dilip Barman's Home Page
www.dilip.info
barman@cs.unc.edu
University of North Carolina
Department of Computer Science
Sitterson Hall, CB 3175
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Thanks for visiting. I am a photographer,
teacher, and computer scientist. I have been taking pictures most of my life,
own Vibrant Memories Photography, and teach digital photography.
I have significant experience as a Senior Software Engineer focused
on User-Centered Design
with background in areas such as operating system and multimedia application
development, advanced technology pioneering, software reuse, and consulting.
I've been active on the internet since the late 1980s, and am
pursuing a Computer Science Ph.D. at UNC, researching
using knowledge representation (artificial intelligence)
to add flexible semantics to a hypertext (think of understanding in
advance what to expect when you follow a web link, for example).
I love to teach; courses I've offered range from computer literacy and programming
to film studies, photography, cooking, artificial intelligence, and motivational seminars and practical talks
on adopting new technologies in a manner focused on ease of use.
I teach:
Math and computer science at DeVry University,
Film studies at NC School of Science and Math,
Philosophy at Duke University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,
Philosophy as well as photography and computer courses at Duke Continuing Education,
Cooking and photography through the Carrboro ArtsCenter,
Photographing babies as a childbirth educator for
UNC Hospitals,
Photography for the Town of Cary,
Photography for the Town of Morrisville,
A variety of courses including film studies at senior centers in Chapel Hill and Cary NC,
and
Cooking at Whole Foods Market.
I may be helping
Governor's School of NC by teaching computer science, math, and philosophy.
My classes fill quickly, so sign up early if you're interested!
I have many
interests and hobbies such as growing and showing roses,
reading, fine film,
listening to music, and
bicycling.
I love to cook - see my
chocolate baklava recipe and 1-page guides to
cooking grains,
steaming vegetables, and
cooking reference.
I was a featured chef at the first annual
Cooking Show (October 18, 2003).
I am very involved in community organizations such
as the Triangle Vegetarian Society
(don't miss our fabulous annual
Thanksgiving feast, the country's
largest vegetarian Thanksgiving)
and my greatest discovery in the past ten years or so,
Servas,
a world-peace organization that seeks to build understanding through friendship.
The arts inspire me. I'm lucky to live in the Triangle region of North Carolina, where
we have perhaps the country's most important documentary film festival,
Full Frame, and the world's largest
contemporary dance festival, ADF; I try
to attend as much of each of these annual events as I can. Starting in 2006, I have a
blog about some cultural events I attend, as
well as
blogs
about my garden and my
cooking.
For years, I had maintained a calendar
of local events related to peace and justice. I am excited about an
event on November 10, 2001 that I had
helped to organize, co-sponsored by a dozen groups, which had four speakers discussing various approaches to
peace and justice, followed by facilitated conversations in small groups. It was very successful and we hope
to eventually have a follow-up event.
In October, 2001, I put together a
flyer on environmental justice, showing
some relationships between vegetarianism and world peace and justice.
I trust that some information below will appeal to you!
Reload the page after a moment to see another of 15 random images above!
You can also visit me on Facebook,
LinkedIn,
and, though I don't use it often, MySpace.
Please sign my guestbook;
you can also view it
(you can also try advanced search)
Cool Sites of the Day
Lists of Exciting Web Sites
Local (UNC, Triangle, NC) Information
Some of my presentations, such as
One day course introductions to
the internet and
creating web pages
Two-hour
Introduction to the Internet
Introduction to Relational Databases
Organic Rose Gardening
Why Vegetarian
Animal Rights
Four
talks and cooking demonstrations at the
July 2002 World Vegetarian Congress in Scotland
Vegetarian Resources including the
Triangle Vegetarian Society home page; we have an
active group - please consider
becoming a member and coming to our
many events
Green Thumb Hints for indoor and outdoor plants
(also see my rose page)
Some of my favorite books
Music Information
Internet Movie Database is a tremendous film resource. Check out
my film reviews on IMDB.
(Another good site is ScreenIt! if you want to
know in tremendous detail about anything that you may find objectionable in a film.)
In early 2006, I started a weblog or online journal where I hope to capture thoughts on
cultural events I attend; you can view it at
dilip2006.blogspot.com
Bicycling Information ... including about my folding
Bike Friday!
India, Hindu Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence Resources
Information on Academic Research
... and
UNC research resources
WWW Search and Information, HTML, etc.
Check out WebCrawler!
Some of my friends with home pages
Miscellaneous - 800 Numbers, Internet Index, OS/2, Graphics, Kids, Medicine
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About me
On the
Myers-Briggs Personality Test, I am a
personality type
ENFJ.
I have taken this test several times
(the formal test professionally given to my team at work in 1994 or 1995, and unofficial
versions I tried on my own
on the internet since then) and consistently
score strongly Extrovert (vs. Introvert), strongly Intuitive (vs. Sensing),
strongly Feeling (vs. Thinking), and moderately Judging (vs. Perceiving).
In a seminar on August 11, 2003, I was administered a "Personality Type Inventory", a new test
that is supposed to give the same results, and scored ENF and a questionable P for an
ENFP type.
In late December 1999, I found the
Enneagram personality typing that assigns one of nine types. I tried
two tests and in both I was strongly of type 2, The Helper /
Giver / Caretaker.
The
first test also gave me moderate scores for type 5, The Thinker /
Investigator / (Perceptive) and type 7, The Generalist / Enthusiast.
The other, newer
one rated me 10 for type 2, 3 for type 3, The Motivator, and 2 for
type 4, The Artist / (Intuitive).
Other types are (1) Reformer / Idealist, (6) Skeptic, (8) Leader / (Aggressive),
and (9) Peacemaker (Easy-going).
Enneagram Personality Styles has more in-depth interpretation, and
Enneagram Personality Dynamics has many additional links.
In December 2005, I found an interesting Political Compass
site that allows you to quantify where you stand on economic and social scales;
you can take a simple 5-7 minute
questionnaire -
my results were -7.13 on an economic left/right scale and -6.72 on a social libertarian/authoritarian one.
My
unix finger information
Recent Fun things I've done
I hope to occasionally throw in a digitized picture, e.g. of my travels ...
you may enjoy visiting my
library of pictures, as well as my
photo.net portfolio
Information sources
ILTweb Virtual Reference Desk List of dictionaries,
thesauri, etc.
Tech
Reports Unified computer science TR index
FAQs An incomplete but still large list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Library of Congress gopher
UNC resources
Spring'95 WWW Seminar including my
course home page and my research into
social aspects of the web
Fall 1997 WWW Programming Class including my
course home page
Spring 1998 Advanced Java Programming Class including my
course home page
UNC
Computer Science Department Home Page
including a list of department people
Hints for preparing a thesis proposal
Sunsite UNC-Chapel Hill home page
Old References
I created my home page back in 1994 when the number of home pages numbered
(only) in the thousands. Since then, many of these links and pages of mine
have become a lot less useful - finding online weather, stock quotes, etc. is
no longer a novelty. I've also not maintained several of these pages.
I'll group older references here for any value they still may have.
Online Proceedings for Hypertext '96
I was involved in putting papers onto the web from
this conference
held in March 1996 in Bethesda, MD. This is probably useful as an archival reference
for these papers.
Weather
Hawaii, US Travel
US Government, Taxes
Graph of IBM Stock Price/Volume ... or
other stock charts. (Stockmaster, originally a prototype
at MIT's AI Lab, is a long-time resource that I linked to back
in 1994 or 1995 before this kind of investment information became much
more common.)
There is also a
Security APL Market Watch market indicator.
MPEG videos, pictures
(I used to do applications programming for near video on demand for IBM
1993-4)
Search the internet
in Google
Search WWW
Search www.dilip.info
Search my food blog
in Lycos
in Yahoo
in Altavista
Category:
City:
State: in Superpages
Interactive Maps and Driving Directions (US Addresses)
For an interactive map or driving directions between two locations in the United States,
specify locations via zip or address -
try "27701" for zip code 27701, "123 E. Main Street, Durham, NC", "123 E. Main Street, 27701", etc., then
click the button to "Map" or "Calculate directions".
location
from
to
Send me email (barman@cs.unc.edu) if you have any
suggestions for my pages or if you would just like to say hi.
Created 14 November 1994
Last updated 23 February 2009
-- Dilip
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