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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.
Filed under 'cambridge'
➠ October 23, 2008
Ten Years in My Life: Where I’ve Lived
On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.
It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?
➠ February 12, 2008
Android in Harvard Square
If you’re interested in developing for Google’s new cellphone platform, there’s a developer day in Cambridge in a couple of weeks. Wonder if the iPhone SDK will be out by then too? Would be interesting to compare-and-contrast.
➠ July 14, 2007
“Live Poultry Fresh Killed”
The sign outside Mayflower Poultry Co. in Cambridge. I finally got around to buying one of their t-shirts today, which I look forward to wearing around my vegetarian chums.
➠ June 24, 2007
geeksinboston.com planning
Today at DevHouseBoston2, Shimon Rura, Jeff Potter and myself started work on creating a local geek-event aggregator/notifier webapp.
With a design sensibility somewhere between Craigslist and Upcoming, it should be live in the next couple of weeks.
➠ June 1, 2007
…for some value of left
Road testing my new GPS in Cambridge gave this rather bizarre instruction (it's telling me to take a "left on Magazine St", but the illustration is actually taking a right onto Massachusetts Ave).
Proof that the roads of New England are too much for even the smartest of technology to deal with.
➠ May 31, 2007
View from the Stage, Ignite Boston!
The blinding light of the LCD projector, above a pretty full (and frustratingly loud-at-the-back) room.
➠ March 1, 2007
This ATM is NOT A BOMB
This parking meter is NOT A BOMB
This cone is NOT A BOMB
The phone is NOT A BOMB
The box is NOT A BOMB
➠ February 7, 2007
Yum!
Joy savours the delight that is the "Berry Smoothie" barium stomach liner, prior to her CT scan today.
➠ January 30, 2007
WebInno10 Tuesday 7:12 pm 1/30/07 Cambridge, Massachusetts
The tenth Web Innovators Group meetup. By my guesstimate, there were well over 200 people there this evening, a far cry from the 60 or so crammed into the back room at Tommy Doyle's the first time I went.
➠ December 9, 2006
Dev House Boston Saturday 12:45 pm 12/9/06 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dev House Boston Saturday 12:45 pm 12/9/06 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dev House Boston Saturday 12:44 pm 12/9/06 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mac owners attract each other, it seems.
➠ October 19, 2006
My drive home from work -- Geotagged on Flickr
With little regard for public safety, I snapped a bunch of shots with my cellphone on my way home from work, which are lovingly (and automagically) placed along my route via the brilliance of Zonetag and Flickr.
➠ October 18, 2006
Corner of Prospect & Hampshire, Wednesday 5:42 pm 10/18/06 Cambridge, Massachusetts
KFC Windows, Wednesday 5:42 pm 10/18/06 Cambridge, Massachusetts
➠ October 3, 2006
Pandora Town Hall, MIT, Tuesday 6:25 pm 10/3/06
Tim Westergren of Pandora, talking with a hundred-or-so interested students and other music geeks at MIT.
Pandora Town Hall, MIT, Tuesday 6:10 pm 10/3/06
A subset of the crowd at the Pandora Town Hall.
➠ September 25, 2006
Blue Screened
Clearly the presenter from Traineo had not performed sufficient sacrifices to the god of demos before getting up at the Web Innovators Group. Within 10 seconds of starting, his laptop bluescreened.
And all the Mac fanboys in the crowd smiled to themselves.
➠ July 24, 2006
Gigantor Remote
Ah, I love the crap they sell at Brookstone. The overpriced junk that gives the air of being vaguely useful, but is too cheap and shoddy to actually solve a problem well.
My favourite one that I saw yesterday was this $50 massive universal remote. Pretend to be a Lilliputian from the comfort of your couch!
➠ October 31, 2005
Darwin's Ltd.
Attention Cantabrigians. Darwin’s has a new-ish store in Inman Square. Rather sadly, the highlight of my day at an old job was getting to Darwin’s for one of their superbly flavourful sandwiches.
➠ December 21, 2004
£1 = $7.26?
That's quite the exchange rate on these Cadbury's Fudges in Harvard Square.
➠ September 20, 2004
99c Store Going Out of Business
A week later, it was down to 25 cents per item
➠ February 11, 2004
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.