Author Archives: Reverend

Digital Storytelling: Week 1

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Reverend

I’ve been meaning to write this post ( and the following three) incrementally over the past month, but time has been tough on me these last few weeks. I’m getting the blogging DTs being away from the bava for so … Continue reading →

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A Useful Plugin: ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment plugin

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Reverend

I find myself in every recent version of WP (and WPMu) searching for the ID numbers for various pages, posts, categories, and/or tags on a number of occasions. I’m not sure when this feature got dropped from the core, but … Continue reading →

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The Shining in 6 Frames

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Reverend

Riffing off of Tom Woodward’s recent exercise he posted, I experimented with using six film frames to capture the essence of the film’s narrative. It might also be a nice way to think about how the juxtaposition of images make … Continue reading →

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La Flashback

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Reverend

If anything this is a post about my LA/Long Beach days, a time I hold dear in my transformation. Once I made love to these songs down on fascination street:

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Momentum for WP as LMS building

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Reverend

Image credit: bionicteaching’s “Edupunking your CMS” Maybe it’s just cause I live in a particular bubble on the internet, but over the past six months or a year there has been what seems to me like some serious momentum towards … Continue reading →

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Humility

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Reverend

Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. Humility. … Continue reading →

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iProp

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Reverend

Fill in the the gap: iPropaganda, iProprietary, iPropofol, whatever. Unlike most technologists I’m really not a device guy, I don’t have an iPhone (not because I don’t want one, but I just can’t afford it) and I don’t have three … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles, Jabberjaw, Unwound

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Reverend

Pretty trippy, I just found the following video of Unwound (the 1990s noise band) playing at LA’s post-punk mecca Jabberjaw. And, I’m pretty sure I was at this show. Must have been 1994 or 1995, and seeing this brings on … Continue reading →

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Deleting old MySQL tables across blogs and databases in WPMu

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Reverend

OK, so this will probably be the final installment of my “pimp your WPMu databases” series 🙂 Part one was moving from WPMuDEV’s Multi-DB package to SharDB; part two dealt with optimizing tables across a number of databases in MySQL, … Continue reading →

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Changing the Oil on a Multi-Database WPMu Install

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Reverend

And to build on my last post about Moving from Multi-DB to SharDB on WPMu, here is a rundown on some of the work done to further optimize the multiple-databases for our WPMu at UMW Blogs. First off, we have … Continue reading →

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