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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 November 4, 2007
➠ November 10, 2007
“Blog” bookmarks
From my Firefox bookmarks: The folder containing all the blogs I followed regularly by hand, in the days before I discovered RSS.
Of the lists, blogdex, daypop, Haddock, Aaron Swartz's "Google Weblog" and Sassypants are the ones which have completely died, and of the rest, bloggerheads and "Nifty News, Decent Deals" are the ones I don't still subscribe to in Google Reader.
Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! | Technology | The Guardian
Stephen Fry reviews the iPhone for The Grauniad. “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the joy. The jouissance as Roland Barthes liked to say.”
➠ November 9, 2007
OAuth Test Server
Simple test OAuth server which has a predefined list of keys and tokens, so you can test your client implementations against it. Handy.
➠ November 8, 2007
➠ November 6, 2007
GmailGreasemonkey10API - gmail-greasemonkey - Google Code
GMail’s new interface exposes an object with the specific intent of making it easier to write less-fragile GreaseMonkey scripts which interact with the application. Nice idea.
Synthesia, Piano for Everyone
The project formerly known as “Piano Hero”.
HEMA - online winkelen
Completely lovely animation on a Dutch e-commerce site.
'Cool Cash' card confusion - Manchester Evening News
Apparently, the consumers of lottery scratch cards in the UK aren’t particularly good at maths. Whodvethunkit? “I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.”
➠ November 5, 2007
spEak You're bRanes
Highlighting the best of the right-wing hystericals who post to the BBC News “Have Your Say” boards.
➠ November 4, 2007
Basset Basset Revolution
Clyde not *quite* getting into the spirit of Dance Dance Revolution
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.