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Joy hadn't had enough sleep, and her epilepsy was playing up, so for her, the walking tour of Kilmainham Gaol was more of a napping-and-leaning tour.
Good move by the TSA: Investing in training screeners with the ability to pick out suspicious characters at the airport; skills that can be used regardless of whether a “bad guy” is planning on using liquids, boxcutters, or dental floss as part of their “plot”.
Build yourself an 11-tuner DVR so you can record every new show this season without having to think about it.
“By reporting this entirely true information, we hope to sap America’s fighting spirit”
AMC apparently has a policy that you are not allowed to take rubber snakes into movie theaters showing Snakes on a Plane. These were the contraband snakes confiscated prior to this evening's showing.
Three years ago, as I was preparing for my last trip to my native Scotland, I glanced at the weather forecast for the trip, and saw rain for every day we were there.
Tomorrow, Joy & I leave for another trip to Scotland. It’s August, the brief period when it stops raining, and is sunny, right?
Right?
Two days where it’s merely “partly cloudy”? Ah, that’s the Scottish summer I know and love.
What a corny pun.
The final bridge before victory.
Fabio is on the right. Peter is on the left.
The red carpet bridge was right below us, but we took another thirty minutes to find our way there.
This was my team.
This afternoon, our team at work took a group outing (under the auspices of "team building exercise") to the Davis Mega-Maze, a massive maze through 10-foot-tall corn. It took us an hour to find our way out!
Google appear to be building their own scrobbler — The new Google Talk client lets you opt to send your Winamp/iTunes/etc playback data up to Google.
Justin & Emmett are throwing in the towel with Kiko, the Y Combinator-funded whizzy AJAX calendaring app. When they built to flip, I can’t imagine this is how they were hoping to go.
SpamAssassin plugin which OCRs the images attached to image-only mails to work out if they contain text like V14GRA. I imagine this is massively CPU-intense, but it might be worth looking at.
Apple have quietly snuck out a new release of Boot Camp. Now, Windows has support for the iSight camera and internal microphone baked into the MacBooks, meaning they’re pretty much ideal for usability testing using something like TechSmith’s Morae.
The shitty search built into MovableType has been hammering my server. Hopefully this’ll be a decent drop-in replacement.
Google TechTalk from one of the authors of “How to Break Web Software”.
When I got home from work, there was an unexpected package on the doorstep from Petco.com.
"Crap!", thinks I. "Clearly Bacon has got himself a credit card, and entered the murky world of e-commerce."
Luckily, it turned out to be a gift from the lovely folks at Reddit, as thanks to Bacon for appearing in banner ads for them!
As a precaution, though, I've taken away Bacon's pre-authorized credit-card application forms. You can't be too careful.
Combined with the Passkey3, allows you to view movies, play MP3s, and enjoy homebrew and *cough* backup games on your DS.
Joy’s new passport arrived yesterday (Yes, for our international travel on Friday. We Begbies are noted for our inability to have our passports ready far in advance of travel). Luckily, this means she’s avoiding the RFID nightmare for ten years.
Bruce Schneier on the futility of banning liquids from carry-on luggage in the long-term. I imagine that that’s not going to stop the TSA, though.
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.
