http://david.carter-tod.com/wp by david carter-tod Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:59:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My kids and I did the Virginia Creeper Trail last weekend. It was absolutely fantastic. I cannot say enough how much fun and how gorgeous it was. This is despite the fact that we were completely drenched in a downpour. A note on logistics I called and made a ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2010/07/21/riding-the-virginia-creeper-trail/ So, this spring, the Blacksburg High School gym collapsed. I went to a meeting at the middle school as we talked over the plans. The middle school kids are going to have to use the old Christiansburg Middle School. My thoughts so far. Wow…just wow… the Montgomery County ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2010/07/21/blacksburg-middle-school-move/ I’ve been re-watching The Lord of the Rings with S recently. So many things about it are wonderful, but there are definitely some bits that drive me a little crazy…of course, I’m not the first to notice these things, but after the initial joy of the movies, it’s a ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2010/04/27/lord-of-the-rings/ 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 call their customer service and I’d swear that within the first ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2009/10/30/comcast-2/ 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 = service.RetrieveUser(username) print "user entry: " + user_entry.name.family_name http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2009/08/31/gdata-python-attributes/ 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 . http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2009/04/12/chronicle-conference/ 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. http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2009/04/07/unpublishing/ Real innovation from The Guardian with a positive response all round (via OLDaily). http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2009/03/10/guardian-open-platform/ We are looking for an Oracle DBA. http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2009/01/15/hiring-a-dba/ Really enjoying reading the latest Journal of Footballing History. http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/12/18/journal-of-footballing-history/