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
Exim configuration for Mailman with Redhat RPMs
I’ve been working on installing Mailman at our institution. It’s been interesting and fun (I’ve been working particularly on altering the default design), but we ran into a problem that had me scratching my head for the past couple of … Continue reading
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Blackboard, F5 (BigIP) and Internet Explorer Performance
We have run into some very strange performance problems with Blackboard and Internet Explorer recently. We think there is an interaction with our load balancer (which is an F5 BigIP – forget which version). We have found that Internet Explorer … Continue reading
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Gmail for Domains
Earlier I wrote about Microsoft offering e-mail hosting for universities and colleges – what I wasn’t clear about was that this hosting was at the college’s domain, e.g. @email.yourcollege.edu. I think this is a big deal – with MSN, it … Continue reading
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Will Richardson Moving On
Will Richardson announces that he is moving on: “…today I notified my superintendent that as of May 15 I would be leaving the district for parts somewhat unknown.” I met Will at a conference in D.C. a couple of years … Continue reading
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Windows Live @ edu Program – free email hosting for universities and more
Update: Gmail has come out with a similar program – when I first wrote about this, I didn’t highlight the fact that this is @yourdomain.edu – Robert Scoble reports that at least 20 Universities have signed up for this While … Continue reading
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Branding Shared College Services
I work for the Virginia Community College System. It has twenty-three colleges, but some technology services are provided centrally, and after having worked for one of the colleges for a long time, and then for the system’s Instructional Technology department, … Continue reading
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Scratching Simplicity – Per Diem Calculator
Every so often, I scratch a technical itch and because the web is the medium in which I choose to operate, I’ll put my solutions online. My Quiz Generator and Tips and Tricks were definitely of that nature. Most recently … Continue reading
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Blackboard Administrator Scripts
Updated versions of my Blackboard Administrator scripts as referenced on the Wytheville site I used to maintain. Also, for downloading the output of the backup tool, see Wackget, which should allow you to drag all the links to the program … Continue reading
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