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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 May 30, 2010

June 5, 2010

Good Morning! Can We Interest You In This Highly Caffeinated Drummer?

AMAZING! “This drummer is in the wrong gig.”

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June 4, 2010

Manufactoria

Finite state machines, the video game. Currently sapping productivity at Slide.

June 3, 2010

Reeder Redefines Google Reader on the iPad

Looking forward to this. Reeder on iPhone is the reason I switched back to using Google Reader for my RSS collation needs.

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June 2, 2010

Caffeine addicts get no real perk from morning cup | Reuters

A believable explanation for why I’m now up to three espesso shots in my morning latté SHUT UP JERKFACE I CAN GIVE UP ANY TIME I WANT!

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Slide’s Code: 2004-2010

Inspired by Daniel Bogan's visualization of the Flickr codebase (http://vimeo.com/11876335), I pulled together this view of Slide's code repository since the first commit on 01-Sep-2004.



Branches are directories, blobs are files (coloured by file type -- swfs are green, python is pale blue, etc), and the buzzing-around things are committers.



Built using Gource - http://code.google.com/p/gource/

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SFpark

Innovative street parking system being piloted in San Francisco this summer — You’ll be able to look on the web and see parking availability at meters across the city in realtime. Prices and time limits will alter monthly to reflect (and shape) demand.

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Be The Mayor

Work out how many more visits you need to make to a venue to have a chance at stealing the Foursquare mayorship. Only 13 days until I have a chance at the Slide office again!

June 1, 2010

Kaleidoscope — File comparison for Mac

New diff viewer for OS X. Finally, a diff tool that can deal gracefully with changesets across multiple files!

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In Perspective: Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster

Move the BP oil spill close to geography you know to gain perspective on its size.


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.