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.
The now-traditional “What’s new in the next version of Gnome” post. As per usual, nothing that makes you fall off your chair screaming OMFGAWESOME, but it’s all welcome tweakage (especially the speeding up, since my Pentium3 laptop is pretty clunky these days)
Weblogsinc blog for those of us salivating at the thought of Nintendo’s upcoming funtoy.
To be investigated… Intriguing source-control browser (and searcher). I’ll have to give this a go at work tomorrow.
Yes! The whole “offensive cartoon” thing has turned into a gigantic international “Free Speech”-off, as everyone races to see who can out-satirize the ridiculous situation of bombing over (not-particularly-amusing) cartoons.
This is what happens when your webchat Bangalore-based customer “service” “agents” (who, let’s face it, aren’t of a sufficient quality to talk to humans on the phone) are given a set of pre-canned double-clickable responses — Unhappy customers get an experience worse than Eliza.
37signals’s new site — an AJAXy chat tool. No installation necessary, more usable than IRC, and less susceptible to shonky firewalls than instant messaging, but I’m not sure I’m comfortable with 37signals hosting transcripts of business conversations & files.
I knew Google had an ad sales office in Boston, but it looks like they’re now hiring techies here too. Is a Beantown Googleplex on the cards?
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.