Archiving 20 Years of the bava
One of my projects for 2025 is to spend time each day reviewing all the posts I’ve written on a specific day since December of 2005. Twenty years of blogging is a pretty significant milestone, and it...
View ArticleArchiving Content and a Long View of the Web
While preparing for one of my retrocomputing streams for Reclaim TV I was searching for some of the major differences between Windows 95 and Windows 98. One of the first hits I got in Google was an...
View ArticleIt Came from the bava Archive, Volume 1
Back in September I installed the On This Day plugin to start trying to review and clean-up the bava archive on a more regular basis. With almost 4,000 posts, this blog has accumulated a lot of...
View ArticleOn This Day
I was recently reading John Johnston’s blog, and I noticed he had an “On this day” tab that led to a page that lists all the posts he had written on that day over the life of his blog. He then went on...
View ArticleArchiving Twitter
Thanks to this post on the OL Daily, and this subsequent toot from Grant Potter reminding me to do it, I spent time converting my recently acquired Twitter archive into markdown. “Why?” you ask. Well,...
View ArticleThe Sisyphean Labor of Link Love
I woke up this morning to a Twitter exchange between Alan Levine and Ken Bauer about creating a plugin that points dead links on a blog to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: I might need a...
View ArticleLaying it Down with the Lo
http://strawboss.net/radio/azuracast-and-you/ It’s been an absolute joy to watch Scott Lockman (a.k.a Scottlo) imagine, evolve, and build out Strawboss Radio. In short, Scottlo has been building a...
View ArticleTimmy Explores the Wondrous World of Windows 3.1
You begin the game as Timmy, a young boy visiting a crumbling amusement park known as Midway. But Timmy doesn’t see a pathetic locale where everything is falling apart, but rather a world of wonder,...
View ArticlePersonal Archiving is an Ongoing Battle Against Web Kipple
While cheering on Tim as he migrated UMW Blogs on Saturday, I discovered that my personal website jimgroom.net was returning a 404. It’s something of an online resume with an RSS feed of recent blog...
View ArticleReclaiming Vimeo
I’m hoping to catch up on some blogging about stuff I have been doing with ds106.tv over the last month or so, but before that I wanted to quickly share an awesome tool that Chris Lott pointed me to a...
View ArticleKatexic, Emphemera, and the Joy of Snail Mail
Just the other day I hot what might be my last Katexic Newsletter. I hope there are more to come after the hiatus because I dig the format, but I can only imagine the time that goes into each of these...
View ArticleThe Long Search for Duke
Back in November of 2010 a much younger bava family visited a dog breeder in Bumpass, Virginia when we were seriously considering getting a Spinone. When we finally did get one eight years later...
View ArticleBavatumblr Archived and Retired
I had a 3 year run on Tumblr. It lasted between July 2012 and August 2015. I loved Tumblr for the GIFs, the film screenshots, and the digital art more generally. I could and did spend hours just...
View ArticleOrganizational Linkrot
I’ve been going through the paces of trying to keep the bava in relatively good shape, and one of the things I forgot was a few random audio and video files that were outside the standard WPMS...
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