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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

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Entries for week beginning December 5, 2004

December 11, 2004

Testing the new cellphone

Testing the new cellphone

...whilst continuing the Bacon-humiliation.

Caffeinated convenience

Caffeinated convenience

Hurrah for Stop & Shop, who have now added cupholders to their trolleys.

The Daily WTF - Looking to the Tech Leader

The Daily WTF disects the “Visual CJavaBasic++#” used in a recruiting ad.

December 10, 2004

Our First Christmas Tree

Our First Christmas Tree

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Wheaties Box

Wheaties Box

Breakfast of (World Series) Champions

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" trailer

Hopefully lacking in the tacked-on-by-Hollywood Everlasting Gobstopper shite of the 70s movie.

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Google Suggest

Search text box auto-completes with suggestions as you type. Wow!

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December 9, 2004

Road Rage Cards

Christmas gift for the Masshole in your life.

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Salon.com | The Shlemiel way of software

Interview with Joel Spolsky. Nothing earthshattering, but an interesting read regardless.

Customize Your iPod Screen

Hackery to change the graphics and fonts embedded in the iPod firmware

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December 8, 2004

Amabuddy

Phone up, enter an ISBN, and get Amazon prices read out to you by a robot.

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DirectRevenue Deletes Competitors from Users' Disks

Scummy adware deleting competitors’ scummy adware from unwitting PCs. Yay for mob rule.

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December 7, 2004

World "Rock Paper Scissors" Society

The 2004 World RPS Championship Event is going to be broadcast on Fox Sports this Friday. Hurrah for 24-hour cable networks!

glarkware :: oceanica airlines

For the lover of Lost in your life

We’re not the only cruel basselope-creators

We’re not the only cruel basselope-creators

Pinched from PvP

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PNC Bank - The Annual "Christmas Price Index"

Who knew that 3 French Hens would set you back $45?

December 6, 2004

Bacon, the disgruntled christmas basselope

Bacon, the disgruntled christmas basselope

For some reason, he didn't seem to find this as much fun as we did.

Human amusement trumps doggy pride

Human amusement trumps doggy pride

December 5, 2004

Christmas Sox

Christmas Sox

Our one external piece of Christmas decoration -- A Red Sox stocking

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Ah Munna Eat Choo

Ah Munna Eat Choo

Purchased from Threadless

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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.