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 June 3, 2012
➠ June 8, 2012
Vegan strippers are on their way to Southeast Portland after Casa Diablo gets a liquor license
“The bottom line is that vegetable-wielding strippers won the day.”
➠ June 7, 2012
➠ June 5, 2012
The Four Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack - CloudFlare blog
Outstandingly detailed postmortem (with timeline infographic!) from Cloudflare on how their systems were compromised despite having perfectly reasonable security in place for their Google Apps accounts.
➠ June 4, 2012
Chrome Networking: DNS Prefetch & TCP Preconnect - igvita.com
I love the relatively simple heuristics the Chrome team have come up with to speed up network connections.
If You're Expecting The TV Industry To Just "Collapse", Keep Dreaming - SplatF
This gels a lot with my expectations for how the television industry is going to evolve over the next few years (ie. Not a great deal, and certainly far less than the folks my age who would love to watch HBO Original Programming without paying $80/month would hope)
Always a little disappointed when I cross the GGB and there aren’t apes swinging on the supports
Vinyl Tap - A record player app for your iPad
Skeuomorphism gone mad. I kind of love it. (Also, double plus points for the name)
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.