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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 June 24, 2007
➠ June 30, 2007
Jill Bernard, riding a pony
The lovely Jill Bernard, performing her one-woman (and a drum machine) musical improv show "Drum Machine" at the Providence Improv Fest.
My Mile Marker
Enter the numbers every time you fill up your car, and track your distance travelled and MPG over time. I’ve often contemplated writing something to track this myself.
➠ June 29, 2007
The AudioFile: Jacking Off the iPhone
Your lovely [RhymesWithNose] (or Shure or Sony or whatever) headphones? Won’t plug into the iPhone (at least without a bunch of hassle). You have to imagine Apple have something up their sleeves here, but it really makes little sense.
“Smart” Water
Apple sent out a couple of employees with bottles of water to keep the line cool.
Record shop chain Fopp closes | News | NME.COM
This makes me tremendously sad. A large proportion of my student income was spent at their shop on Cockburn St in Edinburgh.
➠ June 28, 2007
MusicBrainz Blog: The BBC partners with MusicBrainz for Music Metadata
More on the BBC/MusicBrainz link-up — Not only are the Beeb paying to use MB data on their site, the music experts over there will be helping update MB. This can only be a good thing.
AT&T Internal Apple iPhone document leaked
65 page training PDF. Summary: Go to an Apple Store, not a Cingular one, unless you want to wait for them to faff around offering credit checks and trying to upsell you on Family Plans and accessories. (Sweetest detail: They have custom iPhone carrier bags that they have to place the iPhone into and seal before you leave the store!)
Apple - iPhone at the Apple Store
Although there have been rumours saying that Apple have got plenty of iPhones available for the grabbin’, this page on their website seems to indicate they’re expecting shortages — It lets you know which stores expect to have iPhones available the following day.
Greg Packer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia page for the guy at the front of the line for the iPhone in New York. He’s quite the line-sitter!
➠ June 26, 2007
'Oh good, it's raining again' | Glastonbury 2007 | Guardian Unlimited Music
Quality grumpiness from Charlie Brooker. “The pop-up a tent was a joy. It comes flat, disc-shaped. You throw it in the air and it unfurls into a canvas shell. Within seconds I was the proud owner of a home fit for a tramp.”
Apple - iPhone - Rate Plans for iPhone
No iPhone premium as some feared — These look to be the same as Cingular’s existing voice-plan-plus-unlimited-data rates (which I’m already paying). Not clear if existing Cingular subscribers have to pay an (undisclosed) activation fee, though.
➠ June 25, 2007
OliveToast MiniMail
Lovely little email floater for Apple Mail.
John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript
Rails ported to JavaScript running on top of a JVM. My head asplode!
Global Nerdy: The World Needs More Dialog Boxes Like This
“Comic Sans is the most abused font in the history of computing, so please avoid using it unless it’s REALLY suitable.”
➠ June 24, 2007
Friend Photos - Facebook Screensaver
OS X screensaver which grabs your friends’ photos from Facebook. Playing with this, I was reminded that a) I have some incredibly hot friends and b) I have some incredibly strange friends.
geeksinboston.com planning
Today at DevHouseBoston2, Shimon Rura, Jeff Potter and myself started work on creating a local geek-event aggregator/notifier webapp.
With a design sensibility somewhere between Craigslist and Upcoming, it should be live in the next couple of weeks.
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.