I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!
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 July 6, 2008
➠ July 12, 2008
➠ July 11, 2008
➠ July 10, 2008
Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore
Whizzy Amazon-browsing UI, for those who like to judge books by their covers.
Yankee Stadium GigaPan
Me and Joy at Yankee Stadium. This is a screenshot of a zoomed-in portion of THIS photo, which covers the entire stadium.
My current mood is somewhere between mind-blown at the technology and terrified at the possibilities.
➠ July 8, 2008
Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format
A smidgen of Google’s secret sauce — a lighter-weight-than-XML data interchange format, with heavily optimized cross-language serialization routines. Just the thing for shuttling and persisting data.
Charlie Brooker: These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations
“The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric “peep” noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security.”
The Greatest Bug of All
Or “Why you need to understand operating system fundamentals if you want to ship end-user software”
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.