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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 week beginning March 20, 2005
➠ March 26, 2005
Netdisaster
Inflict damage upon the website of your choosing. Spilling coffee is my favourite effect.
➠ March 25, 2005
➠ March 24, 2005
Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums (All of them)
The New York art galleries get a taste of the Banksy experience. Brilliant.
Latin1 to ASCII -- The UNICODE Hammer
aka “The Stupid American”. Quick Python recipe to get rid of all those pesky foreign accented characters in a string and replace them with their ASCII “equivalent”.
IronPython
The Python compiler for .net gets a (still pre-alpha) update. It’s worth noting that this project was so good, MS hired the author for their CLR team.
➠ March 23, 2005
Decompiling Programmer-Speak
“The UI’s still a little bit rough.”
Translation: What’s not to love about the A:> prompt?
➠ March 22, 2005
De-skunking Bacon 3
Thereby answering the question "If we decided to slit Bacon's throat, what would it look like?"
De-skunking Bacon 2
He is *not* happy with us right now.
De-skunking Bacon 1
Joy focused on cleaning him, while I unhelpfully stood around with my cellphone snapping photos.
Tomato Juice
Bacon barked at a skunk in the back garden tonight, and got sprayed. Not pleasant. A Google search pointed us in the direction of either hydrogen peroxide or tomato juice. This is what the corner store had in stock.
fuware.net Repository - revision 82 - pymusique
Now *that*’s a commit! Pymusique works around Apple’s “fix” within a day, thereby meaning that Apple shut out users of earlier iTunes versions for nothing.
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One of the finest (and simplest) ZX Spectrum games gets a 2005 makeover. Thoz.
➠ March 21, 2005
➠ March 20, 2005
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.