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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 April 19, 2009
➠ April 25, 2009
Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard: MySpace and Geocities — separated at birth
“Geocities — the MySpace of 1997-1999”
➠ April 24, 2009
MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS
“MEAT CARDS do not fit in a Rolodex, because their deliciousness CANNOT BE CONTAINED in a Rolodex.”
Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7
Windows 7 will ship with (effectively) a free copy of Virtual PC and license to run Windows XP. “Classic Mode”, if you will.
➠ April 23, 2009
In Massachusetts, a husband's death shows how important marriage is
A beautiful essay by a friend about how important same-sex marriage has proven to be when faced with the unexpected death of his husband.
➠ April 22, 2009
Unwigged and Unplugged
Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest playing the music of Spinal Tap and The Folksmen.
➠ April 21, 2009
Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores
Leonard Lin’s summary of “the market” of distributed key stores. I haven’t needed to do anything terribly large-scale yet, so redis has been Good Enough for me.
“Flow Slow Could Flood”
This is written on a pipe at Slide. After walking past it, I always get the phrase stuck in my head, because I like the sound of it. To me, it sounds like it should be some mythical warrior: "The Amazing Stories of Floslo Cüdfludd".
brdfdr.com (Birdfeeder)
Dan Sandler’s research project, creating a protocol for distributed microblogging. An improvement on identi.ca, as he built a Twitter gateway to help bootstrap. Will definitely be playing with it tonight.
Clyde on the beach
Looking through Flickr, I was surprised that I hadn't uploaded this handsome shot of Clyde on the beach at Fort Funston. It's probably my favourite photo of him.
➠ April 20, 2009
atebits - Tweetie for Mac
Tweetie has been my iPhone Twitter app of choice for some time. The new OS X version seems equally lovely. Not going to tear away folks with seven-column Tweetdeck setups, but it seems to be a good step-up from Twitterrific.
Roger Ebert's Journal: Parrot asks, "What'd the frozen turkey want?"
Great Ebert column on comedy and joke-telling.
➠ April 19, 2009
Not a headshot for Joy
Frankly, I thought this was the best shot of the session. Joy disagreed.
MLB.com for iPhone and iPod touch
The official MLB At Bat iPhone app is *killer*. Last year’s version was my second App Store purchase (after Super Monkey Ball), but the addition of live radio coverage of games is fantastic. Sitting at work, or driving somewhere, with the sound of Joe Castiglione calling the Sox is well worth $10.
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.