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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 August 17, 2008
➠ August 22, 2008
Ice Cream Sandwiches on the rooftop. Hurrah!
The Ice(cream sandwich)Man Cometh
View from the Current rooftop
➠ August 20, 2008
Things - task management on the Mac
I will confess to having fallen somewhat head-over-heels in love with Things as a TODO list manager over the last couple of days. Requires some light symlinking-to-an-iDisk to “sync” across machines, but offers the right levels of “This is a task for today/soon/sometime” to help keep me organized. Next step: Play with the iPhone app.
Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
“ONLY BUILD STUFF FOR YOURSELF. That’s the Golden Rule of Building Stuff. If you’re planning to build something for someone else, let someone else build it.”
REST Request
Another handy REST post. The API I’m building at work currently only uses GET & POST, this helps explain that it’s still “RESTful”
➠ August 19, 2008
➠ August 18, 2008
Braid's ending explained
SPOILER, natch. Internet theorising about a non-obvious subtext to Braid’s story. If Portal was a video-game short-story, is Braid a video-game poem?
BackwardsIncompatibleChanges - Django
Suspect I will be referring to this a lot over the next week or so as I bring my blog code up to snuff with the impending Django 1.0 release. (Currently have 95% working, but the hackedup comments code will take a bit more work…)
Amazing but True Cat Stories
The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories.
➠ August 17, 2008
ERNEST BORGNINE - Secret to Old Age
Ernest Borgnine delivers a pitch-perfect stage whisper on Fox News.
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.