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.
Just added this to groovymother out of idle curiosity. Sign up, get a free dollar, then donate a penny every time you visit here, or other affiliated sites.
Local startup tourb.us has launched. User-contributed and web-scraped gig listings. Includes my pet favourite feature: Enter your last.fm username, and they’ll email you if any of your favourite bands play locally.
Genius! This is everything social software should be. User-generated content, bringing people together.
Tango do a nice spoof of that Sony bouncing-balls-in-SanFran advert. The rest of the astroturf site is pretty decent too.
Interesting article. Though I like the Monopoly question, I think I’m going to steal the “design a control system for an elevator” one from the comments for the next time I interview someone.
For those of you who care about such things, my Mario Kart DS friend code is 073086–862758, and my Tetris DS friend code is 140719–694460.
For those who don’t care about such things, my social security number is 078–05-1120.
Genius! Watch movies with your friends across the internet. Social software so you can heckle and chat as you watch DVDs.
SlimDevices have battled the uPnP demons, and Squeezeboxes will soon be able to stream Rhapsody content.
I bought the DS Lite that I've been craving for so long this morning. Joy's been quite taken with Brain Age.
I'm hoping to get it back off her soon so that I can indulge in a little more Super Mario.
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.