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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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Tag Archives: reclaim
Reclaim Hosting: the VHS Days
A Rotating Easter Egg is just one of the many features of Reclaim Hosting’s New VHS-Inspired Site Design It’s official, Reclaim Hosting‘s website got an overhaul, and in addition to featuring Bryan Mather‘s updated VHS-inspired designs it also highlights several … Continue reading
Built to Spill: Further Forays into Managed Application Hosting
View this post on Instagram Where will you spend eternity? A post shared by Jim Groom (@jim.groom) on Aug 21, 2018 at 7:37am PDT … Continue reading
Blogging at Scale with Google Sheets
When you go directly from several weeks of work travel into the beginning of the semester rush at Reclaim Hosting, the bava.blog necessarily gets neglected. But that changes now! Back on August 22nd Tim and I sat down with John Stewart … Continue reading
The Life and Death of the Blog
On the heels of a transatlantic journey I sat down with Tim Owens to discuss the fate of academic blogging in the wake of Harvard University’s announcement of their shuttering their blogging system. This is our seventh episode of Reclaim … Continue reading
Reclaim’s Dedicated to Virtual Infrastructure
Tim and I did a Reclaim Today show to celebrate the fact our infrastructure is now entirely hosted on virtual servers, and predominantly Digital Ocean at this point. We talked a bit about where we’ve been, where we are, and … Continue reading
Zeit Here, Zeit Now: Watching the WWW Wake Up to Container Hosting
It was a pretty busy week at Reclaim Hosting, and I am up early on a Saturday morning working on the final migrations of our shared hosting infrastructure to Digital Ocean. Bye, bye ReliableSite! It has been a very productive … Continue reading
Whoowns or Whoowens?
One of the cPanel scripts I’ve found really useful as of late is the whoowns script that let’s you know which account owns a specific domain. Let me provide a quick scenario. You have an issue with a domain and … Continue reading
Marking Time: 5 Years at Reclaim Hosting
It’s hard to believe, but yesterday was the fifth of what Tim and I are officially acknowledging as Reclaim Hosting‘s birthday. I always thought it was the 28th of July, but as I’ll talk about here soon, my memory is … Continue reading
SPLOTting a Path to Coventry
I spent most of last week working from the UK. Coming off vacation I was back on the road, and a couple of days in London was a nice transition back. In fact, I even got to see Phantom Thread … Continue reading