Author Archives: Reverend

#nobody

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Reverend

Back in the fall of 2013 I had the distinct pleasure of presenting at the University of North Florida about the work we’ve been doing at UMW. I had a blast, and I wrote about the experience in detail soon … Continue reading →

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Hi Score

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Reverend

This is a screenshot of my recent hi score on Asteroids for Atari 2600. It’s really a pretty simple game, so this score is really not an accomplishment. Now if I actually finish Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari … Continue reading →

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Discourse(s) on Docker

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Reverend

One of the things Tim built a while ago is a server running multiple instances of the forum software Discourse using Docker. He did this because we’re getting more and more interest at Reclaim Hosting for this forum software. As usual, Tim … Continue reading →

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Lunch with the Torrances

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Reverend

During a discussion I had with a group of faculty this evening about managing their own domains, one professor asked how he might approach blogging in his film class. Because I can’t help myself, I immediately mentioned to GIFs as a way to … Continue reading →

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Two Years of Reclaim Hosting

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Reverend

Is it a coincidence @ReclaimHosting‘s birthday coincides with #SysAdminDay? #ithinknot We love @timmmmyboy!!! — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) July 31, 2015 Two years ago my partner Tim Owens and I rushed down to the Fredericksburg county clerk and gave birth to the two-headed monstrosity … Continue reading →

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I’m One of the Greatest Animated Comic Book Artists! Well, actually…

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Reverend

Paul Bond tweeted out a link to this post featuring 25 of the greatest animated comic book covers of all time—which means the last three or four years when they became a thing. Check out 25 Greatest Animated Comic Book … Continue reading →

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XML-RPC Blocking using htaccess

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Reverend

Blog posts about WordPress on the bava in conversation with the great D’Arcy Norman? Party like it’s 2008! @jimgroom I’d love to see how you fixed the xmlrpc thing. blog post on htaccess etc…? — D’Arcy Norman (@dlnorman) July 30, … Continue reading →

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#umwconsole Now with 2 Channels!

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Reverend

I spent most of the spring writing about UMW’s Living Room Console exhibit, a re-creation of a 1985 living room in a tucked away corner of the brand spanking new Information and Technology Convergence Center at UMW.  I spent the … Continue reading →

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ds106 is not a cult, it’s a ~club

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Reverend

Back in March Tim and I went to the IndieWebCamp at MIT.  Part of the two-day event consists of proposing something to build and hoping others are interested in participating. During lunch on the first day Tim threw out the idea of … Continue reading →

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Abstractions: Running WordPress Multi-Site using AWS, Docker, and BTSync

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Reverend

Heads up: this is not a technical run through, but more of a conceptual overview. Apologies if you came here looking for a how-to. Hopefully we will have just that in the next few months. But enough about the past, … Continue reading →

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