Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning September 26, 2004

➠ October 2, 2004

25 things that make you feel like a real man...

I’m personally guilty of the “Drinking Up”

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The AZERTY Keyboard

The AZERTY Keyboard

My nemesis as I attempt to send emails. You have to press Shift to type numbers??

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ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

Sir Clive's masterpiece, in a museum, where it belongs.

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Cray 2

Cray 2

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Baguette and Brie

Baguette and Brie

Yay for French food.

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➠ October 1, 2004

found a Scottish bar

found a Scottish bar

Hurrah for 80/-

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Layover in Iceland

Layover in Iceland

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➠ September 30, 2004

At the airport

At the airport

Joy studies a guidebook

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Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates

“Walter Cronkite called CPD-sponsored debates an ‘unconscionable fraud.’”

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Plastered of Paris

The missus & I are off for a week to Paris, where we plan to eat, drink, be merry, and annoy locals by constantly quoting the “Fraunch Toast, Fraunch Fries, Fraunch Dressing” bit from Better Off Dead(Better Off Dead… (1985)).

France Telecom permitting, I’ll try and upload some photos to my Flickr page

Laters!

Update: Yep, the cellphone upload thing is working a treat. Cray 2 Supercomputer fans should definitely check out my photos!

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➠ September 29, 2004

Bad: HR4077 Passed the House

Fucking hell. This is so Bad and Wrong that I can’t even begin to process it. 5 years in jail for sharing 1,000 MP3s?!?

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"I wouldn't vote for Bush if I were you"

Political clothing for the carpetcrawler in your life.

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➠ September 28, 2004

O'Reilly Network: The New Bloglines Web Services

Mark Hedlund takes the Bloglines web services and knocks up a 3-pane aggregator in 150 lines of code.

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Bloglines Web Services

Take the load off your servers — Get Bloglines to smart-cache and distribute your RSS, and encourage folks using desktop clients to use the services. Nice stuff!

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➠ September 27, 2004

Red Sox nail down playoff berth

The Sox make it to the playoffs for the second time in my brief time following them. Rawk!

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No Joke: Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race

“Viewers of late-night comedy programs, especially The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the cable channel Comedy Central, are more likely to know the issue positions and backgrounds of presidential candidates than people who do not watch late-night comedy”

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.

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