About Me
IT Analyst in Southwest VA. Originally from England, born in Liverpool, and brought up mostly in Steyning, West Sussex. Started life as David Tod, but changed my name in 1993.
Went to college in at the University of Bristol, lived in Italy and Japan before coming to the U.S. Somehow via an MA in English and PhD work in Instructional Technology, have ended up as an IT Analyst.
Now living in Blacksburg, Virginia with two lovely daughters.
If you wish to email me, you'll notice that I own my last name as a domain, so my email address is my first name at my last name dot com.
On Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/dcartertod
Monthly Archives: July 2008
The Middle Man
Is it just me? I am really enjoying The Middle Man. Seems to me that they come up with the most preposterous conclusion, e.g. trout-crazed model zombies infected by an evil villain using Brazilian Flying Pike venom and work out … Continue reading
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Sakai and OpenSocial (via OLDaily)
Via OLDaily comes this piece about developers at Cambridge building a new interface for Sakai based on Google’s OpenSocial API. This is good because Sakai utterly sucks at the UI level and the observation about it being written by and … Continue reading
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Adventures in customer service: Air Canada
Comcast gets mad props for finding and following up on my post about their local office, which is both fixing the door and fixing the signs. Air Canada gets my ire today with numerical error codes when trying to buy … Continue reading
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