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.
The first-ever Awesome Foundation grant recipient gets a front page photo & story on the Boston Globe. This is what AWESOME can do for you.
Boston Globe article advocating the refreshing power of a mid-afternoon nap. Wonder if anyone would mind if I scheduled time in the conference room each day for a spot of shuteye…
Blog by Alan Taylor gathering together the best photos from the newswires, displayed at a decently-high resolution.
The Globe’s fine marketing folks apparently decided that the perfect name for their new women’s supplement was that of the transvestite from the Kinks song.
Globe article about Startup Weekend Boston, quotes me thusly: “Laptop karate”. I have no recollection as to what the hell that meant.
Local live-music aggregators Tourb.us and Tourfilter get a writeup in the Globe.
Turns out that I was mentioned in the Boston Globe the other day (in their local blog roundup column), and didn’t know about it. Not sure what to make of the sentence construction “Rod Begbie […] writes on his Groovy Mother”, though.
The story’s kind-of interesting (Screw-ups at the Copley Mall meant that people who waited outside for three days didn’t necessarily get a PS3, and the CT robbers), but the reason I’m blogging this? The fantastic photo illustrating the story.
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.