Author Archives: Reverend

DIY Video Games at the V&A

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Reverend

Last weekend the whole family spent a few days in London and it was a blast. I’ve been to London a few times over the last two years, and I’m a big fan. We did a bunch of things, but … Continue reading →

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Remembering OWLTEH, Part 1: the Open Web Installations

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Reverend

Hard to believe it’s been more than a week since the Learning on/with the Open Web conference (OWLTEH) in Coventry. It was a great conference experience for me, and if I don’t stop and take a bit of time to capture … Continue reading →

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I woke up the other day and my phone was on 2%. I thought I had charged it the night before, but maybe not? In fact, the last week or two the lightning cable hasn’t been sitting right, and time … Continue reading →

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Reverend | 3 Comments

Tommy’s Chocolate Doom Pi

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Reverend

I got a Raspberry Pi 3 recently in an attempt to get some Windows emulation going in preparation for an exhibit about the 90s web at the OWLTEH conference. I am playing with the emulation software QEMU, and I have … Continue reading →

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Migrating a cPanel server between Cloud Hosting Providers

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Reverend

This post is a quick run down of the steps for migrating servers so the next time I have all the steps in one place. The scenario in this case is we’re migrating a school’s server from Linode to Digital … Continue reading →

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Bava Mountain High

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Reverend

I was tickled when I read Adam Croom’s recent post about his trip to Trento this Summer. When someone visits the gorgeous country of Italy, it is no small feat when their visit ranks as a highlight. Entertaining so many … Continue reading →

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Old Gold VHS Mold: the Fungus Amungus

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Reverend

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmxFsyAHBn4/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Looks like we have fungus growing on a couple of our Betamax tapes. You can see it above on the Goldfinger tape. Kinda eats into the tape like the opening title sequence of John Carpenter’s The Thing. We are … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Video Laserdisc and VHS Haul

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Reverend

I have been quiet on the Reclaim Video front with everything going on with the Fall semester start-up, so before they become a distant memory I wanted to mention a couple of nice hauls of  Laserdiscs and VHS tapes we … Continue reading →

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Tripod

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Reverend

After my last post I started searching round for timelines and details about early web hosting companies like Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, etc. and I found a pretty neat timeline from The History of the Web site. Of particular interest was … Continue reading →

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Prof. Dr. Style

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Reverend

Lauren Heywood, Daniel Villar-Onrubio, and I are working on the exhibit for the Learning on the Open Web conference (OWLTEH) in exactly two weeks. One aspect of the exhibit will be framed examples of the 90s learning web. This will entail … Continue reading →

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