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.
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Author Archives: David Carter-Tod
Comcast
I really want to like Comcast, but they’re very incoherent. I’ve had cable/internet service with them for several years and just moved, so I’ve been interacting with their customer service quite a lot. So a couple of things: 1. You … Continue reading
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GData Python Attributes
Per http://crad.tumblr.com/post/73308257/gdata-python-client-mappings, I don’t know how I would have known if I hadn’t run across that post. Working with a user_entry object, you access and change the family name using user.name.family_name (even though the xml has familyName), e.g. user_entry = … Continue reading
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Chronicle Conference
Just for the record, presented at this Chronicle conference as part of a panel on Google Apps. Got a Google watch and Google netbook case out of it .
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Unpublishing
Just had to unpublish something. My Google “juice” is evidently still enough that my (not quite neutral enough) comment on a project of ours turned up as the second result on searching Google for that project name.
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Guardian Open Platform
Real innovation from The Guardian with a positive response all round (via OLDaily).
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Journal of Footballing History
Really enjoying reading the latest Journal of Footballing History.
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Google Hosting
It seems to me that a fairly well-hidden feature of Google Apps is that you can map a Google Site to a “regular” url, like www.example.com. In essence this means that if you get all the features that you want … Continue reading
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Learning Management System RFP
Virginia Tech has a Learning Management System RFP that could apply to any institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Jus’ sayin’ that’s all
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Moving to Google Apps for Education
I’ve written about Google Apps before and they have continued to expand and improve the service. This weekend I’m in charge of moving 300,000+ users from our internal email system to Google Apps for Education. Fundamentally, I suppose, I’m in … Continue reading
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