Archiving 20 Years of the bava

One of my projects for 2025 is to spend time each day reviewing all the posts I’ve written on a specific day since December of 2005. Twenty years of blogging is a pretty significant milestone, and it provides a good opportunity to try and clean-up as many derelict links, missing videos, and broken images as possible. The archive will never be entirely whole, but using Alan Levine‘s WP Posted Today plugin to list all posts from a specific day will make the process as easy as possible.

There are 8 posts previously published on January 5th

• 2022
  • Updating a Ghost Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud One of the things I wanted to figure out after installing Ghost as a Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud was how to update it to subsequent versions. Below is a very short video on the process as well as the … Continue reading →
• 2016
  • Reclaim Support for December 2015 I’ve written about Reclaim Hosting‘s stellar support a couple of times already, and out of curiosity I took a quick look at our support statistics for December. Our average response time to new tickets during August, September, and October was 7 minutes, … Continue reading →
  • A Fistful of GIFs The Western 106 force is strong with me these days. I even watched John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) last night, but more on that in another post. For now I’ll be talking about today’s Daily Create which asks us to make GIFs from … Continue reading →
• 2014
  • Tiny Tiny RSS It’s taken me more than six months to resurrect my RSS reader (pathetic, I know), but I’ve finally imported my forlorn collection of feeds into the open source application Tiny Tiny RSS. I went with this application based on a recommendation … Continue reading →
• 2010
  • “Parade” by People Like Us Another gem from the RSS reader from Ubuweb: People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) | U.K. Back to People Like Us in UbuWeb Film Parade (2009) A word from the artist… While viewing and sourcing content from the Great North Run … Continue reading →
  • Blind Date from Hell Catchig up on my RSS reader is always a joy, and one of the most consistent and indisposable YouTube filters in my reader is the Media Funhouse blog, without fail there are at least 5 or ten posts that lead … Continue reading →
• 2009
  • I like my Cultra Rare Update on 12/14/09: Unfortunately Cultra Rare is gone, for nothing gold can last. I have been exploring the Cultra Rare site I found by way of this post by Kliph Nesteroff over at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog (I’m finding … Continue reading →
• 2007
  • A Few Customizing Tips for K2 The semester is coming, so here’s a little something to keep you going… Including a Custom Header Image in K2: To include a custom header in K2 you have two options. You can use the custom header tool in the … Continue reading →

To be fair, I’ve already written about doing this over a year ago and some progress was made. But there’s still a bunch of broken windows that need be repaired before the big anniversary, so labor on for love we must. I worked through the first 5 days of January which was about 70 posts—a good start. There’s only about 3800 more to go! We’ll see how far I get, but nothing’s more hopeful than tidying up your own little corner of the web.

The other benefit is all the wild things you are reminded of during the process, such as my Western106 GIFs exploring the genius of Sergio Leone, that post was a lot of fun.

Or the ds106 Yams meme, I have no words

Or the 2010 tribute to Ed Grant of the Media Funhouse blog, in particular his homage to Val Avery and the latter’s show stealing performance in Minnie & Moskowitz (1971) linked above.

A Few Customizing Tips for K2

Maybe craziest of all is a 2007 post about customizing the venerable WordPress theme K2 for which the original tutorial by Paul Stamatiou is still up and running—that’s truly a rarity for those old posts.

EDUPUNK: It was pure in my heart!

Archiving is a powerful way to remind myself how much fun and connection has happened on this space over the years. It was pure in my heart.