Posted by David Carter-Tod on October 26th, 2006 — Posted in Work
Alan creates a meme: Linktribution. Actually, I was thinking about this concept today, because I was searching for some code I wrote some years ago, and found it reproduced in a number of places online. That’s fine and dandy with me since it typically has my contact information in it (umm….outdated however).
Whenever people attribute things to me in e-mail (on Blackboard lists for example), I can pretty much guarantee that they’ll get my name wrong. Most people do…..”Todd”, “Davis”, “Carter”, “Tod Carter”….I have finally learned to let it go, and forgive people for not hearing it right when I say it either. I have to twist my mouth to approximate an american accent when spelling it out.
I’ve been working on some things I don’t want to talk about yet, but there’s a light I’m beginning to see at the end of the tunnel, and no, it’s not a train.
Oh, and I want to follow up on the Creative Commons thing. Forget Creative Commons, most people I encounter haven’t heard of blogging…sigh.
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Posted by David Carter-Tod on October 12th, 2006 — Posted in Work
The list of Google services tied to my account keeps getting longer and longer. I noticed my Gmail services menu has now added an integrated Writely and Google Spreadsheets (”Docs & Spreadsheets”) tool, and there’s also a “Photos” web service (Picasa as a web service) item now. The full list (at least for me):
- Analytics
- Calendar
- Gmail
- Groups
- Page Creator
- Personalized Homepage
- Picasa
- Spreadsheets
- Talk
- Writely
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Posted by David Carter-Tod on October 8th, 2006 — Posted in Family
In the late 70’s, I bought a Mamod SA1 Cream Steam Roadster. I had saved up for it for a long time, and as I recall it cost me about 35 pounds, which was a lot of pocket money.
Like many toys, I used it a few times, and then primarily kept it in its box and on a shelf. I have been carrying it around with me ever since. I moved recently and my daughters noticed it and prompted me to get it out.
With some caution and lots of caveats to my girls about it being unlikely to work after 25 years or so in a box, we oiled the bearings, filled the boiler with hot water and took out the fuel tablets. To my frank astonishment, they lit, we placed the heat under the boiler and the engine worked beautifully.
The steam engine is a marvel both of simplicity, but also of quality engineering. It was fun for my girls to steer it up and down the sidewalk, and I just love the elegance of the design, and watching the piston do its work. I think my brother had a Traction Engine. Maybe he’ll dig that out.
It reminds me of a visit to the British Engineerium, and the massive pump engine there, which I was lucky enough to see in operation. It looks like the museum has had some shaky times, but I hope it sticks around.
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