Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning October 7, 2007

➠ October 13, 2007

Popjustice - Kylie - '2 Hearts'

Corky O’Reilly, It’s Kylie! Top new track. As Popjustice put it: “Woo etc.”

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File under “Maybe it’s just me, but…”

File under “Maybe it’s just me, but…”

... given this photo is on the How to File a Claim page of my insurance company, doesn't it suggest that these adorable moppets have been injured, possibly fatally, in a car accident?

Just seems grisly to me.

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A Social Network for Two

Ze Frank lives! A lovely little modern-day love song.

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➠ October 12, 2007

If you can read this…

…then my DNS-fu has worked, and you’re now hitting groovymother.com on its new server, a virtual Linux box running via Xen, hosted by VPSLink.com

For the last 6 years, all my sites have been hosted from my home, at the mercy of my (usually exceptionally-reliable) Speakeasy DSL connection. However, when the whims of BitTorrent take me, it can cause slowdowns, and virtual-server technology now means I can get root on a hosted server for less than the price of a cup of gin a day, so I’m putting my trust in a hosting company’s arms, and seeing how it works out.

(After signing up with VPSLink, I received a recommendation for Slicehost who offer similarly-priced services, so it’s good to know that switching shouldn’t be a problem if VPSLink turns out to suck balls for some reason)

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Rear-ended 2

Rear-ended 2

Luckily, everything seems to have crumpled correctly, so it's just going to be some body-work to get back up to "pristine" condition.

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Rear-ended 1

Rear-ended 1

I was the meat in a car-sandwich this evening. No-one was hurt, so it's mostly just a hassle of dealing with insurance companies.

I feel sorry for the poor bugger who did the rear-ending -- there were four cars involved, so his insurance costs are going to be *brutal* next year.

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Inkling Markets Public Marketplace

I’ve been having lots of fun betting pretend-money and making predictions on sport, politics and technology. There’s still plenty of “money” to be made from fools who think the next revision of the iPhone will be on sale in January!

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Collected

CD Purchase: Massive Attack - Collected

➠ October 11, 2007

Cool Tool: ScanCafe

I’ve been looking for a cost-effective way of converting our wedding photo negatives into digital files for a while, and this looks like it might be the way to go. $0.19 per negative.

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➠ October 10, 2007

Cover art for In Rainbows // journal // hicksdesign

Since the MP3s don’t have any cover-art, Jon Hicks is hosting a “Design your own Radiohead Cover Art” contest. #21 is my favourite so far.

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rsync.net Warrant Canary

Interesting solution to the problem: how can you tell people you’ve been served with a warrant that you’re not to tell people about?

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xkcd - Exploits of a Mom

“Did you really name your son “Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;—” ?”

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➠ October 9, 2007

Jaiku | Google Q&A

Google have bought the Finnish Twitter-a-like Jaiku. I always liked Jaiku’s S60 cellphone software — wonder if this purchase has anything to do with Google’s cellphone ambitions? (And I hope it does better under Google’s roof than Dodgeball did)

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➠ October 8, 2007

Science Museum - Launchball

Addictivating little Impossible-Machine-like physics flashgame from the Science Museum in London.

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Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends

Presentation by Ian Rogers (ex-IUMA and Nullsoft) to music industry folks. “Want a track on-demand? Oh have we got a deal for you! If you’re on Windows XP or Vista, and you’re in North America, just download this 20MB application, go through these seven install screens, reboot your computer, go through these five setup screens, these six credit card screens, give us $160 dollars and POW! Now you can hear that song you wanted to hear…if you’re still with us.”

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White Chalk

CD Purchase: PJ Harvey - White Chalk

rentzsch.com: apple's antiCAPSLOCK

The new Apple keyboards have a delay (at the hardware level) to prevent aCCIDENTAL cAPSlOCK.

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Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets

Analysis of the “Storm” worm. Cunningly designed to be as undetectable as possible, it’s a frightening vision of what modern malware can be.

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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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