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’ve been playing with SlimServer as a replacement for iTunes’s role as my listen-on-my-laptop-to-the-music-on-my-server tool, and it’s pretty damned impressive. Open-source, plenty of plugins, deals well with my collection, and hey! It’ll work if I choose to buy one of their delightfully-tempting $300 Squeezebox networked music players.
A really good summary of the best bits of Agile, XP, etc. plus some common sense. Turns a bit Perl-centric near the end, but that aside it’s an excellent read for software engineers.
Read this Cory rant about a proposed Firefox feature that would allow advertisers to track click throughs in an opt-outable manner, then count the number of undisclosed un-opt-outable click-through mechanisms in use by the horde of advertising links littering the page. I counted five (boingboing.net, clk.atdmt.com, adserver.fmpub.net, c2.edapebaf.com and click.adbrite.com)
Mac laptop “anti-theft” app. Interesting feature set, although I’m cynical about how many times the “thief” turns on the laptop and connects to the internet, rather than the poor sap who buys it from them on Craigslist.
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.