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Entries for week beginning February 1, 2009
➠ February 6, 2009
When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires
Good to know: Credit card verification systems will NOT accept a sketch of cock & balls as your signature.
Please Raise My Taxes - NYTimes.com
This is exactly my attitude (which I refer to as “left-wing capitalism”). People should be free to earn as much money as they can, but an increasing amount of it should be taxed.
➠ February 5, 2009
Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit
Barack Obama recorded an audiobook of Dreams of My Father, which means he says the words of the people in his life. Including Ray, who swore. Which means we have an MP3 of our president saying “You ain’t my bitch, nigga.”
This? Is awesome.
➠ February 4, 2009
➠ February 3, 2009
Map of Popular Super Bowl Words Used on Twitter
I’ll be that the folks at Careerbuilder are pretty thrilled by the “Talking about ads” timeline.
➠ February 2, 2009
“You must allow Google Software Update to run in the background on your computer.”
The latest version of Google Earth requires you install a mysterious new background process to your Mac before you can use it.
The words "fuck that shit" spring to mind. This is a dick move in the style of all those fucking annoying updates that keep getting installed in Windows system trays by douchebag invasive packages (Java, Adobe Acrobat, et al), wasting cycles.
I hit "Quit", and am waiting for someone to post a workaround before I'll consider playing with the new version of Google Earth.
(Updated to add: Apparently, I should be grateful they chose to prompt me before installing the process.)
Damn you, Punxsutawney Phil!
I don't think I can take another 6 weeks of this horrendous SF winter weather.
git ready: daily tips for the noob to the guru
Lotsa handy tips for better wrangling ‘git’. There’s so much cleverness under the covers, you need something like this to keep bringing the best bits to light.
A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone
Things has completely changed my life. My moleskine has laid dormant for months, no longer the recipient of a gajillion TODO lists. And, as Shaun Blanc points out, the interface is a near total delight. Dragging a TODO into the project section to split it up into subtasks is the kind of intuitive action that makes it ace. If only it had MobileMe syncing, instead of custom-over-wifi and Dropboxery.
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.