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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/ 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 with a Google site and the other integrated services ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/11/17/google-hosting/ Virginia Tech has a Learning Management System RFP that could apply to any institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Jus’ sayin’ that’s all http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/09/22/learning-management-system-rfp/ 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 charge of the whole project. I’m excited about it because ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/09/21/moving-to-google-apps-for-education/