Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning February 26, 2006

➠ March 4, 2006

YouTube - O! News

Silly little Oscars news parody from Peter Serafinowicz — Apparently just made for fun. His Alan Alda impression is spookily good.

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YouTube - Real Life Simpsons Intro

Simpsons opening sequence remade with humans. Anyone know the origin of this? It looks British. Promo for Sky One?

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➠ March 3, 2006

Joyeur: Public Betas Are a Sham

Spot-on Gruberrant.

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➠ March 1, 2006

Ten reasons why you need to build an API

Very attractive presentation by Shaun Inman (author of Mint) on the benefits of building an API into your webapp.

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Another Zonetag test

Another Zonetag test

Bacon's tail: Too fast for the LED flash on the camphone.

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➠ February 28, 2006

Encyclopodia - the encyclopedia on your iPod

Wikipedia download for iPods, built on top of iPodLinux. We’re not quite there yet, but I guarantee by the end of the year we’ll see some killer apps running on iPodLinux.

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If Microsoft designed the iPod packaging

Pretty much spot-on.

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ZoneTag Photos

It’s stuff like this that made me want to purchase a Series 60 cellphone again. Two-click Flickr photo uploading, along with geo-tagging.

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The Superbrowser

What happens if you take the lightweight Firefox browser and load 100 extensions into it? (Short answer: You lose about a square foot of screen real-estate)

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Apple - iPod Hi-Fi

Obviously, I’m not a neutral observer, but my immediate reaction is that it had better sound good, cause it looks like crap.

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➠ February 27, 2006

Belle & Sebastian, Avalon, Boston

Belle & Sebastian, Avalon, Boston

ZoneTagged Mon Feb 27, 2006 19:03:29 PST

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Dicking around with the new cellphone

Dicking around with the new cellphone

ZoneTagged Mon Feb 27, 2006 15:50:02 PST

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➠ February 26, 2006

curlypasta.co.uk

Frankly admirable dedication to a cause: Reviewing all the kinds of instant macaroni & cheese on sale in the UK.

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PersonalDNA | Your True Self Revealed

I’m a Reserved Analyst, ‘pparently. It’s the new INTJ, dontchaknow.

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Now, I don’t claim to be a great expert on cellular technologies, but…

Now, I don’t claim to be a great expert on cellular technologies, but…

...I think I can safely say that my RAZR has RAZed its last. Dec 2004 - Feb 2006... I think that's the longest a cellphone has ever lasted me.

I'm now eyeing up a Nokia 6682, and trying to work out the best way to purchase it without becoming Cingular's bitch for the next two years.

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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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