http://david.carter-tod.com/wp by david carter-tod Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:44:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 for hard core Java developers (who love architecture) with ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/07/03/sakai-and-opensocial-via-oldaily/ 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 a flight. You have to call them to find out ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/07/02/adventures-in-customer-service-air-canada/ 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 emblematic. There was a sign on the door telling people ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/06/29/comcast/ Guess I’m not alone in finding Tommy Smyth’s commentary on ESPN completely infuriating. I cannot bear to hear him talk about “bulging the old onion bag.” Meanwhile Andy Gray is showing the depth and sophistication of his experience. I can’t help thinking that ESPN thought they were ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/06/13/euro-2008/ 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 cows and horses grazing in rolling fields, birds yelling at each other ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2007/04/18/today-was-a-beautiful-day-in-blacksburg/ I live in Blacksburg. Today is an awful day. My family are safe. http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2007/04/17/virginia-tech-news/ 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, I was quite nervous, but I think ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2007/03/18/conference-presentation/ 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 different ways, recording their performances, and putting their content ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2007/01/30/dear-sophina-in-the-classroom/ 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 ISBN to citation converter. http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2006/11/21/google-scholar-preferences-citation-import/ 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 me since it typically has my contact information ... http://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2006/10/26/linktribution/