Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning January 22, 2006

➠ January 27, 2006

Channel4.com - IT Crowd

Channel 4 are streaming the first episode of Graham Linehan’s new sitcom. It’s good, but not great, but then I didn’t think the first episodes of either Father Ted or Black Books were all that good, but the series turned out to be fantastic.

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Tic-Frac-Toe

Playable Noughts and Crosses as a fractal. Requires Firefox 1.5

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➠ January 26, 2006

Forensic criminology, the ZX Spectrum way

Hee! An episode of CSI:Miama had a Big Expensive Computer. The sounds generated by the computer? A ZX Spectrum loading Knight Lore.

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Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog

I’ve really been enjoying this blog, tellings stories about the planned (radically different) UI for the next version of Microsoft Office. It’s been many years since I’ve been anxiously looking forward to getting my hands on a beta copy of *Office*!

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Reveal

Swish little graphical-history extension for Firefox. There’s a lot of polish here, including a very clever “tour” when you first use it.

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Nintendo announces DS Lite

Nice. I’ve been tempted by the DS for a while, so I think I’ll pick one of these up when they’re released over here.

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This correspondence is forwarded from a Massachusetts Correctional Institution

This correspondence is forwarded from a Massachusetts Correctional Institution

A letter arrived yesterday for a former resident of our house, from someone in prison. I'm tempted to open it up just to make sure it doesn't say either "I'm coming to get you" or "I'm coming to stay when I get out", but I think returning-to-sender is in order.

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➠ January 25, 2006

Digital Spy: BBC World gears up for US launch

Auntie’s 24-hour international news channel will hopefully start appearing on US TVs soon. Hooray!

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The 3 Hour Tour is Now Available! : FeedLounge

Finally had a chance to play with FeedLounge. It’s a very nice interface, that’s for sure — I’d recommend this over Bloglines to new RSS users. I’m probably going to stick with self-hosted Gregarius for now, though, since it’s free and free.

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➠ January 24, 2006

Clerks 2 - Teaser

Looks like Kevin Smith is heading back to the Askewniverse after “Jersey Girl” bombed. Here’s hoping it’s a worthy successor to the original.

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➠ January 23, 2006

Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

Fear and Loathing on the streets of London.

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➠ January 22, 2006

Slanket: The Best Blanket Ever

Wow, this is genius. A big fleecy blanket with sleeves, so you can control the TV or type on your laptop without exposing your shoulders. Want!

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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.

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