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Entries for week beginning April 2, 2006
➠ April 8, 2006
Google Jobs: Engineering Director - Boston
Looks like the rumoured Boston Googleplex is pretty close to happening. “We have an exciting opportunity to expand our Engineering operations to Boston.”
Language Log: Tracking snowclones is hard. Let's go shopping!
A detailed explanation of the “X is hard. Let’s go shopping!” snowclone. I knew it was meant to come from the talking Barbie — I didn’t realise it had been bastardised quite so heavily.
I Am The Lord of the Dance Settee - 50 Ways?
Fun thread on Sue’s LJ: What *are* the other 46 ways to leave your lover?
➠ April 7, 2006
ESPN Baseball Gamecast
This flash app on ESPN's MLB site is simply lovely. Just enough information to follow the game, with handy infographics showing the pitches and plays.
I'm currently watching stuff recorded on my TiVo with my laptop next to me, displaying the gamecast. When I see something exciting's happening, I can drop to live TV and watch the game. Hooray for technology.
BBC Radio 4 -The Now Show
Auntie releases a Radio 4 comedy show for MP3 download & podcast. Hurrah! If they do this with the next series of Just a Minute and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, I’m going to be a happy camper indeed.
Network Magic
Simplified home-network manager for Windows. A common interface for all the things you want to manage — routers, software firewalls, file/printer sharing, etc.
➠ April 6, 2006
Advanced Access Content System
An overview of how the AACS encryption system that’ll be baked into Bluray and HD-DVD works. It’s very well-crafted, but ultimately doomed-to-fail — either through cracking, or through speedy product-obsolescence.
SiteAdvisor blog: Taking SiteAdvisor to the Next Level
Local excellent security startup SiteAdvisor has been snapped up by McAfee. They were pretty clearly built-to-flip — My money had been on Google to buy them, though.
➠ April 5, 2006
Genuine VC: Musing on Freemium and Ad-Supported
“Freemium”. What a lovely word to describe all those “Free for now, then we’ll add pay-for premium services later” startups. Of course, I’m sure it will be overused, and in a year’s time I’ll hate it as much as I do the word “Ajax” now.
➠ April 4, 2006
Weather on my Squeezebox
The somewhat terrific Weather screensaver running on the Squeezebox in our bedroom. Hurrah for internet-enabled consumer-electronic devices.
➠ April 3, 2006
~stevenf: Treo 700w has Egregious DST Bug
Palm’s first Windows Mobile handheld gets horribly confused and shuffles around your calendar appointments by an hour when daylight savings kicks in. Well I mean, obviously. Who could ever predict such an unusual event as clocks being moved forward an hour? It’s madness, I tells ya. Madness!
YouTube - The Simpsons Movie Trailer
Oh, I’m dreading this so much. Is there any chance that this will be a good movie? Please?
YouTube - NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo
Steve Jobs — The original screencaster. This is from _fourteen_ years ago - round about the time Microsoft were releasing Windows 3.1.
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.