Rod Begbie

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 February 24, 2008

➠ March 1, 2008

Oracular Spectacular

CD Purchase: MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

DJ Kicks

CD Purchase: Kid Loco - DJ Kicks

DJ Kicks

CD Purchase: Hot Chip - DJ Kicks

Mastercuts Chilled: 3 CD’s Of Essential Chillout Classics

CD Purchase: Various Artists - Mastercuts Chilled: 3 CD’s Of Essential Chillout Classics

➠ February 27, 2008

Seventh Tree (Special Edition)

CD Purchase: Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Special Edition)

Trunk Monkey Compilation

A series of superb car dealership commercials. My next car had better have a Trunk Monkey.

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GROW CUBE

Why I was late for work this morning. Excellently addictive flash-puzzle.

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➠ February 26, 2008

Comcast Blocking: First the Internet -- Now the Public

Comcast paid people to take seats at the FCC hearing in Cambridge to prevent opponents from being in the room. Just amazing in its brazenness.

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

The Onion News Network is getting better and better.

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Winclone

I bought a new laptop drive for my MacBookPro last week, and with SuperDuper, was able to copy my OS X partition and boot off it within hours. The Boot Camp Windows partition, however, stumped me. No amount of disk copying or dd’ing worked.

This tool did. It does all the magick required to successfully copy a Windows partition and tweak the partition table to make Windows boot again. Hurrah!

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Stephen Fry's Podgrams

New podcast from Stephen Fry. Subscribed!

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➠ February 25, 2008

Git - SVN Crash Course

Bookmarking this, since work has just started creating an officially sanctioned SVN repository, so it’s clearly time for me to start using a more esoteric source-control package.

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Word Aligned

Excellent geekyblog recommended to me by a co-worker. Interesting articles, which delve into algorithms and some of the guts of Python I never consider.

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Forumwarz

Funny and clever RPG based on pwning internet forums. I’m having a lot of fun with it.

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➠ February 24, 2008

Bassetfight

Bassetfight

Two bassets and a squeaky toy enter...

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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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