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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Author Archives: Reverend
ffmpegX makes DVDs easy
Sometimes I do a bad impression of the New Media guy on DTLT TV. I’m not very convincing, but that’s just because I use a MAC. Speaking of which, I think it’s high time I started doing a little documentation … Continue reading
Godwin’s Law
I discovered Godwin’s Law after reading this thread on the WPMu Forum. Here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia article: Godwin’s law is often cited in online discussions as a caution against the use of inflammatory rhetoric or exaggerated comparisons, especially … Continue reading
Miracle Mile
Given the state of the world that Brian Lamb describes with such profound eloquence in this post, I think it’s time to reach into the movie vault and pull out Miracle Mile, a surreal, end-of-the-world love story the whole family … Continue reading
They’re here!!!
That’s right ladies and gentleman, all ten of these wryly irreverent bumper stickers have arrived, and as per this post seven of them are going out in the mail sometime today or tomorrow (just need to shore up a few … Continue reading
OneClick Installer Plugin Screencast Tutorial
I recently posted about the OneClick Installer plugin for WordPress and how easy it makes installing themes or plugins right from your browser. This plugin will be extremely useful for the folks in the Teaching & Learning Technology Fellowship we … Continue reading
WPMu: Sitewide Tags, Search, and Archive
Sitewide tags is a feature of UMW Blogs I spent a bit of time working on this past Summer. In fact, one particular workaround allows you to have a sitewide tag cloud as well as sitewide searching of blog posts … Continue reading
People like us…
“We don’t want freedom! We don’t want justice! We just want someone to love.” This musical interlude featuring the inimitable John Goodman in a scene from David Bryne’s True Stories brought to you with very special thanks to Carole Garmon’s … Continue reading
The Era of a One-Click WordPress
We have been talking for a while about how easy the installation of WordPress (and many other apps) is made by the one-click magic of script installers like Fantastico. However, this didn’t solve the problem of uploading themes and plugins … Continue reading
Explaining Japanese Internment
The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon blog is at it again with this post that includes a propaganda video about the “Japanese Relocation” in the US during WW II. For a little context, this is a post for an Asian … Continue reading
God isn’t my co-pilot…
…but after my impulse purchase at the Onion Store, Jesus is now officially my car insurance. The Reverend rides in the Bible Belt! Image credit: D’Arcy Norman’s “jesus is my car insurance” I actually bought two extras because the shipping … Continue reading