This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
I had all four “versions” of this — The newspaper of the future printed on non-tearable Kevlar. Shame the Grauniad didn’t attach PDFs to this article.
The beginning-stages of that Thunderbird plugin I want. Hurrah for the Lazyweb! Thanks to Ricky Moorhouse for letting me know.
“Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.” Fighting netabuse with netabuse. Sigh.
!http://groovymother.com/images/spammerchat.png 554×74 (Celebs love their watches)!
Do you know the watch preference of a C-list celebrity? Send it in, and we’ll pay $10 for each one we publish.
I was going to skip my traditional annual cellphone-contract-expiration-celebration this year. The Nokia 3650 that I got last year was doing me just fine, thanks. But that all changed when it completely died on me a couple of weeks ago.
Almost precisely a month after the manufacturer’s warranty expired.
Hurrah and huzzah, then, for my American Express card’s Buyer’s Assurance Plan, which refunded me the full $300 I paid for the phone, despite the fact that I got back $300 in rebates at the time.
So, with my free $300, I’ve dropped a re-diculous sum on the supra sleek-n-sexy Motorola RAZR(Amazon.com: Cell Phones: Motorola RAZR V3 Phone (Cingular))—which after rebates, will effectively set me back $70. (Yes, I’m aware that, opportunity-cost-wise, I’m spending $370. But don’t shatter the illusion, please).
The reviews looked positive, it’s got Bluetooth, and it passes the all important iSync test.
I’ll pass on a review once I get my grubby hands on it.
“Larry is probably one of the first transgender/sexually ambiguous animal mascots in Linux history.”
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.
