Archive for December, 2007

UMW Blogs Upgraded to WPMu 1.3

Well, it took long enough, but UMW Blogs is now running WordPress Multi-User version 1.3. We had to be a bit more careful with this upgrade because we are now supporting close to 800 blogs, so I actually took a page out of Patrick’s book (since I am on vacation and have had some down [...]

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Mary Washington Centennial on flickr

UMW’s centennial is on the Flickr bus!

As 2007 comes to a close, the University of Mary Washington’s centennial year is set to begin. There has been much preparation for the centennial festivities, and the occasion has in many ways helped the university to focus on the importance of a digital memory for the institution more [...]

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Graffiti: Reading Cultures on the Wall

One of the things I enjoy about Italy is the [[graffiti]]. It is often very entertaining, if not as elaborate as the fine art found on the subway cars in NYC during the 1980s. In fact, graffiti in Italy has a long cultural history dating back to the Ancient Greeks and the Romans. [...]

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Am I a Community-Based Learning Network Specialist?

I find myself coming back to this question a lot as the semester has come to a speedy close. Having a bit of time to reflect on some of the work we accomplished at UMW this semester, I keep on wondering why I feel my job has changed. In fact, on the surface it hasn’t [...]

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Portare fuori il cane…

…or “Walking the dog” Italian-style.

The extent of social services runs deep in Italy. And I had the opportunity early this morning to experience to what degree a civilized social system can make the quotidian chores of life easier and more pleasant. Take, for example, walking the dog, a relatively simple process that most folks in [...]

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Watched Airplane!…

…in preparation for the trip to Italy tomorrow, which will begin with eight hours on a plane with two small, riotous kids.

I wonder if our captain will prove so engaging? Off color I know, but without question some of the best lines ever captured on film.

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Yahoo! Powered Shortcuts Plugin

I’m not sure what to think about the new Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin that WordPress folks are blogging about. It seems to be a joint venture between WordPress and Yahoo! that scans your posts to recommend and create shortcut links to sites, creative commons Flickr photos, maps, news, etc. What are these shortcuts you ask? [...]

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Bava Going Black

Bavatuesdays will be going offline for a few days while I try and experiment with moving this site (and four others I currently maintain) into one WPMu installation through a different host. I’ll be testing the possibilities for domain mapping (more about this here and here) in an attempt to centralize all my work into [...]

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Trilogy of Terror

For some reason Chucky’s far more frightening predecessor, the African Zuni Fetish Warrior Doll from the 1975 [[telemovie]] [[Trilogy of Terror]], was on my mind earlier this evening. So, I promptly searched for Trilogy of Terror on YouTube and, as always, I found the goods. If you haven’t seen this classic written by [[Richard Matheson]] [...]

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One-Click Updater Plugin for WordPress

I posted recently about the OneClick Installer plugin that makes installing new plugins on your blog a cinch. One of the issues that this plugin has is that while it can install just about any plugin easily, it can not overwrite existing plugins making it useless when it comes to updating plugins.

One of the [...]

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