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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Category Archives: Work
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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Comcast
Update: Comcast emailed me for details, followed up with my local office and got the signs and door fixed! Saying something negative about Comcast is hardly news, but stopping by my local office provided two examples that struck me as … Continue reading
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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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“Dear Sophina” in the classroom
A week or so ago, I read the strange tale of neighbors and noise. In a lovely application, an english teacher (who surely deserves some kind of acknowledgment for creativity) had his students read and respond in a couple of … Continue reading
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Google Scholar Preferences – Citation Import
Hidden away in Google Scholar Preferences is the ability to automatically show links to import citations into EndNote, RefWorks, etc. I didn’t know that. It could have saved me considerable time. Via this thread on mefi about Ottobib – an … Continue reading
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Linktribution
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 … Continue reading
New Google Services
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 … Continue reading
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My kids’ school using blogs and google calendar
My kids’ elementary school has the principal blogging using blogger, and the school calendar maintained using Google Calendar. This makes it really easy to keep track of what’s going on at their school, using my customized Google Homepage. I’ve added … Continue reading
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Meeting George Bush Sr.
A funny thing happened at lunch today…I met the 41st President of the United States. Continue reading