Rod Begbie

I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!

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.

Entries for Saturday, March 12, 2005

➠ March 12, 2005

Gaim-Encryption: Simple encryption for instant messages

I already use this plugin. Those of you who IM with me, and don’t want AOL keeping logs of it, are encouraged to do likewise.

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It only takes three commands to install Gentoo

I’m midway through the second one.

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Gentoo: Tantric Linux.

Dan Sandler: Funny bloke. I wonder if the Gentoo Marketing team might like to take up that slogan.

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DrunkenBlog: The pits in CherryOS

Excellent article on the scam (or possibly scamola) that is CherryOS.

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Cool Tools - Marker Board Walls

The walls at SAPE were practically made out of this stuff.

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Sloth

Mac-ified version of lsof.

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This Is Our Year (Again!)

Sully’s Tees update their classic (but now redundant) “This Is Our Year” shirt for 2005.

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Aimee Mann | The Forgotten Arm

Aimee Mann (who I love. Love. LOVE!) is sharing tracks from her forthcoming album. And it’s BLUDDY GRATE!

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Gentoo Building

Gentoo Building

I get my geek thrills by installing Gentoo, the Linux distribution that lets you build everything from source.

It takes a long time (especially on my 4-year-old Pentium 3 laptop), but it makes me happy!

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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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