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Entries for week beginning April 8, 2007
➠ April 14, 2007
HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web
Good summary of the “competing” HTML/XHTML “standards”. There’s the engineering side of my brain that loves the ‘you have to close every tag’ tidyness of XHTML, but let’s face it, the pragmatic reverse-engineered-tag-soup approach of HTML5 is going to win this one.
➠ April 13, 2007
Fire And Motion - Joel on Software
Classic Joel article from 2002. I had to go and reread this, because I’ve been stuck in a rut of unproductivity for the last couple of days. Good reminder that it happens to everyone.
IE WebDeveloper V2
Firebug-a-like for IE. If this works as advertised, it could be indispensable for cross-browser Javascriptery.
Nigel's Green Skeleton Shirt - This Is Spinal Tap - founditemclothing.com
Gonna have to get myself one of these. “Exactly medically accurate”.
➠ April 12, 2007
Interactive Johari Window - Describe rodbegbie
Back in the third year of my CompSci degree, there was a class that was around personal development and teamwork — presumably to help tweak out the Asbergery tendencies of CompSci students — and part of it was the Johari Window (which I largely remember because its name comes from the fact that its inventors were Joe and Harry). If you know me, go pick five or six adjectives to describe me, and see how self-aware I really am.
slight paranoia: A Deceit-Augmented Man In The Middle Attack Against Bank of America's SiteKey Service
Those anti-phishing “pick a photo and a phrase that must be displayed when you login to your bank” systems? Work-aroundable by smart-enough phishers. Wonder where the arms race goes next?
➠ April 11, 2007
Mr Dice, Meet Mr K. (again)
ZoneTag Photo Wednesday 8:05 pm 4/11/07 Boston, Massachusetts
Yet more Japanese
WEEI and ESPN Radio were both handing out Japanese signs for the crowd to hold up. No idea what they say, though. (Outside the park after the game, the Sully's Tees folks were selling shirts that said "YANKEES SUCK" in Japanese. Some things are universal)
Mr Dice, Meet Mr K.
These guys were a couple of rows back from us. Joy & I are totally going to rip off their idea this Hallowe'en.
ZoneTag Photo Wednesday 6:44 pm 4/11/07 Boston, Massachusetts
ZoneTag: Photosphere / About. Owner only: Fix Location / Add Tags / Settings
Japanese Baseball Cheers
Handed out outside the park.
Matsuzaka 18
First person I saw with a MATSUZAKA 18 shirt on. Saw a fair few people who'd recycled their "DAMON 18" shirts from before he went evil.
Popeye’s Chicken Welcomes Japanese-Speaking Red Sox Fans
First piece of Japanese writing I saw near Fenway, outside the Popeye's Chicken.
“Official Sponsor of The Gyroball”
I love this billboard on the Mass Pike. It's for Bank of America who are the "official" bank of the Red Sox.
It's designed to resemble the manual scoreboard on the Green Monster, and says "Official Sponsor of" before being completed by topical slogans, which change about once a week.
Today, it reads "Official Sponsor of The Gyroball". Prior to Opening Day, it was "Official Sponsor of Best Day of the Year", and before yesterday's Home Opener it read "Tuesday Homecomings".
Makes me smile every time I see it, even if Bank of America are evil incompetent buffoons who I wouldn't bank with if you paid me.
weather.com - Red Sox games
Weather.com are now serving up weather reports for baseball fans — warning you what the weather’s gonna be like where and when your team is playing.
➠ April 10, 2007
YouTube - Instant laser coffee
Note to self: Convince Sodexho to install one of these in the [RhymesWithNose] cafeteria.
Need To Know 2002-07-26
How free porn has helped the world of networking in the past — Load-testing BitTorrent back in 2002.
The Great IPv6 Experiment
Can the carrot of free porn give us valuable feedback on the readiness of users to switch over to IPv6 networking?
O'Reilly Radar > PHP Becoming Mainstream
“PHP and MySQL For Dummies” is currently the top-selling PHP book. Attention malicious types: There will soon be even more half-assed easily-attackable PHP sites on the internet for your delectation.
➠ April 9, 2007
Kotaku: Xbox 360 Text Input Device
Good lord. When I saw pass by the other day in my RSS reader, I assumed it was a piss-take photoshop job. Nope, it’s real — QWERTY in your hands.
➠ April 8, 2007
YouTube - Cadbury Eggs...smaller?
Conclusive proof by BJ Novak of “The Office” that Creme Eggs *are* smaller this year (only in the US?)
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.