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.
GeoURL is back. Incidentally, adding latitude and longitude to my homepage was indirectly responsible for my current employment!
Be still, my beating geek heart.
The UK trailer for the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie.
Featuring not only the voice of the book (Stephen Fry) and Marvin (Alan Rickman), but also—I can scarcely believe how much this thrills me—the original theme music from the radio series! Hooray for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!
(Found on UKNova, mirrored using Coral)
I treated myself to a new iPod, as I await our tax refund. This replaces the 20Gb 2nd gen one I bought in August 2002. I expect this one to be full within 9 months too.
Tee hee. “The biggest news to report on the DJs is that the Pocket DJs will be released in five new colors… The 5 colors will be: Silver, Chrome, Aluminum, Platinum, and Classic.”
The traditional media and the “blogosphere” collide some more. Excellent regular content from the fine folks at The Observer.
According to the folks at audioscrobbler.com/ and last.fm/, these are my top albums. Mostly true, although the "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants" in the bottom left is somewhat suspect.
Fantastic way to generate buzz for something which is essentially dull.
The XML/XSLT/XmlHttpRequest web-app approach now has a buzzwordy name to throw around in meetings.
Really interesting looking SSH client for Windows (with easy to use tunnelling abilities), but holy crap, their license is confusing as all hell.
Napster files brief saying that illegal file-sharing networks must be shut down.
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.
