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Entries for week beginning March 11, 2007

March 17, 2007

A gathering of OLPCs

A gathering of OLPCs

Several prototypes from the One Laptop Per Child program were brought along for geeks to play with. While I'm not going to give up my MacBook any time soon, they are beautifully designed for what they're needed to do.

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest topic board

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest topic board

To inspire programmers taking part in the 24-hour Programming Contest, a list of topics was drawn up and ten were drawn at random.

(This board was later amended to say "Convince us that you used at least 4...")

And no, I have no idea what "BBQ Calculator" means either.

OLPCs bring joy

OLPCs bring joy

Alan Taylor with a OLPC laptop.

OLPC Draws the Crowds

OLPC Draws the Crowds

SJ Klein of OneLaptopPerChild draws a big crowd during an impromptu demonstration over afternoon break.

Geek Debris

Geek Debris

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BarCampBoston2 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2.

Populating the Schedule

Populating the Schedule

The chalkboard -- or "physical wiki" as I prefer to call it.

Programming Contest suggestion board

Programming Contest suggestion board

BarCampBoston2 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2.

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BarCampBoston2 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2.

BarCampBoston2 Schedule (Saturday morning)

BarCampBoston2 Schedule (Saturday morning)

BarCampBoston2

March 16, 2007

DockArt

Replace the iTunes icon in the dock with the coverart of the currently playing track. Nice.

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The Soxaholix: Ecce Homo

“Those who can do. And those who can’t create blogs criticizing the can do people for doing what it is they do.” “Yeah, and those that can’t do and can’t blog, well, they become blog comment trolls.”

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March 15, 2007

Costello Music

CD Purchase: The Fratellis - Costello Music

March 14, 2007

Capture a Screencast with a Mac

Tools to help you create a screencast in OS X. Some of them also look like they’ll be handy when doing a live demo.

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Kosher for Passover Coke: Its the Real Thing Baby � Off The Broiler

Coca-Cola made with sugar instead of the usual High Fructose Corn Syrup is in the shops now, in time for passover. Gonna have to give up my caffeine-fast to make a Pepsi-challenge-style comparison.

The Morning News - South by South-BEST!

If like me you’re not at SXSW, here’s what you’re missing. “Or hear a lively discussion about the rise of the “blogebrity,” moderated by a man named Kyle Bunch, the very person who coined the word “blogebrity” and then convinced the rest of us that blogebrity is actually a real thing rather than an excuse for Kyle to receive more links and get invited to blogger meet-ups.”

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Adobe edits the development cycle | Reg Developer

Some good thoughts on how to manage code quality in a product development world. “Probably the most effective thing we did was institute per-engineer bug limits: if any engineer’s bug count passes 20, they have to stop working on features and fix bugs instead. The basic idea is that we keep the bug count low as we go so that we can send out usable versions to alpha testers earlier in the cycle and we don’t have the bugalanch at the end.”

slacker.com

New webradio service a la Pandora, but with plans to create desktop, portable and car music players that integrate with the service.

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March 12, 2007

Package Tracker - Monkey Business Labs

Package tracking widget for OS X’s Dashboard. Saves you wearing out the F5 key when you’re waiting for something shiny.

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The 463: Perhaps the Coolest Moment in the History of Congress and Why it Matters

Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA): “Maybe mash-ups are transformative new art that expands the consumers experience and doesn’t compete with what an artist has made available on iTunes or at the CD store. And, I don’t think Sir Paul [McCartney] asked for permission to borrow that bass line, but every time I listen to that song, I’m a little better off for him having done so.”

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BBC NEWS | Harry Potter book 'often unread'

According to a survey, 32% of people who bought the fourth Harry Potter book didn’t finish reading it. Which makes sense, because it was shit. Life’s too short for 200 pages on a Quidditch tournament.

BarCamp / BarCampBoston2

New England geeks, this is your five-day warning: BarCampBoston2 is this weekend, and looking like it’s gonna be a good ‘un.

Spamtrap

Art. “When a new spam email is detected by the installation, it automatically prints it out. The printed email slides down a track into the shredder that analyzes it.”

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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.