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
Category Archives: Virginia
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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Today was a beautiful day in Blacksburg
If you’ve never been to Blacksburg in the spring, you should. We are Virginia Tech Yards from million-dollar research enterprises, the grass is a deep, exuberant green, and I walked past a noisy stream on my way back home, past … Continue reading
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Virginia Tech News
I live in Blacksburg. Today is an awful day. My family are safe.
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Conference presentation
I had an opportunity to present at this Digitial Government conference last week. Here’s the session information. I think the presentation itself should be online soon. It was loosely based around this JISC document on Web 2.0. Given the audience, … Continue reading
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“Disciplined Liberty”?
During my citizenship ceremony, the federal court judge made some remarks and used what I thought was an unusual phrase – “disciplined liberty” – it sounded wrong to me, but maybe I’m just ignorant of its roots.
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Becoming a U.S. Citizen
I became a U.S. citizen last Friday and only had to wait 4 days before meeting a president. Is this a standard thing for citizens? Maybe there’s some secret code or marker on me now and I’ll run into presidents … Continue reading
Meeting George Bush Sr.
A funny thing happened at lunch today…I met the 41st President of the United States. Continue reading
Web Developer Position Available in Virginia
I forget sometimes that I have this soapbox. We are looking for a web developer. A 2.0 kind of developer. Here’s the job description I wrote, that was turned down: Do you know the difference between usability testing and asking … Continue reading
My daughter on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
I had never watched the show until tonight, but because my daughter made an appearance on it, I watched. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition this evening. My girl was one of the dancers who danced on the canvas to make the … Continue reading
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