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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.
Entries for week beginning December 10, 2006
➠ December 16, 2006
Finally powered by Django
Simon Willison’s shifted his blog onto a Django-based platform. I think I might have a crack at this myself — The limitations of MovableType (not least the fact that I don’t know Perl terribly well) keep biting me these days. Could be fun to roll-my-own (and a good project for my week off work).
TuneGlue | Relationship Explorer
Yet another Flash musicmap explorer. This one’s from EMI and uses Last.fm relationship data.
Amazon Customers Vote: Wii & PS3
Amazon are rather sensibly randomly distributing the chance to buy a Wii or PS3 from them. Sign up before midnight tomorrow for a shot at getting one.
Basset Belly Balancing
Bacon makes himself comfortable, perched atop my ample gut.
➠ December 15, 2006
Jamglue - Remixing for the Masses
Interesting Y-Combinator startup which offers a web-based frontend for mixing audio, with the social twist of being able to remix others’ mixes.
WII Mod WII: Mii Transfer Station
Smart people have worked out how to download/upload Miis from/to the Wiimote over Bluetooth, and set up a forum for Celebrity Mii trading.
➠ December 14, 2006
Schneier on Security: Real-World Passwords
Bruce Schneier breaks down the password data gathered by a MySpace phishing attack. Notable fact: When the site insists upon including letters and numbers in the password, folks just append “1” to their usual password. (And, in my experience, when forced to change their password every few months, just cycle the number)
Boston Red Sox : News : Sox unveil Matsuzaka
The negotiations are finally over: Dice-K will be wearing Number 18 on the mound at Fenway come April. A snip at $102m
➠ December 13, 2006
iTunes sales are NOT plummeting! Press credibility, on the other hand . . .
Tsk. I should have known better than to link to an Orlowski post on The Reg.
Google Patents
It’s a bit wonky on its first night out, but this new Patent search from Google is pretty powerful, indexing the full text of all the patents. Only appears to hold granted patents though, not applications.
Collaborative filtering made easy
Dirt simple implementation of Slope One collaborative filtering algorithm in 40 lines of Python.
Are You Ready for Obama? - New York Times Blog
Barack Obama puts “all the doubts to rest” and makes his announcement.
➠ December 12, 2006
Flickr Christmas Easter Egg
Add a note that says “ho ho ho hat” or “ho ho ho beard” to any of your photos on Flickr to Christmas them up!
Justin Mason: Happy Software Prole » Threadless deals with plagiarism
Threadless published a t-shirt yesterday which turns out to be a rip-off of some street-art. Justin’s tracking how it develops.
➠ December 11, 2006
Threadless: ‘An item in your cart is running out!’ email
What a brilliant piece of customer service from Threadless.
As their 30-day $10-a-shirt sale has been going on, I've been occasionally chucking shirts I fancy into my cart, with an intent to go back on the last day of the sale and buy in bulk to save on shipping costs.
This evening, I got an email that one of the shirts in my cart was close to selling out. That gave me enough time to go back to their site and checkout.
A win-win all round, then. I got my shirt, and they got a sale. Nice work Threadless chaps!
Le mètre cube de sperme. Participez!
A French artist wishes to gather and display 1000 litres of chilled spunk/spooge/love porridge. Sign up for your free “donation kit”. No, really.
➠ December 10, 2006
BBC NEWS | UK | 5.5m Britons opt to live abroad
About 10% of British citizens live outside the UK. /me waves from the U.S. of Stateside.
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.