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.
Filed under 'skitch'
➠ February 17, 2010
➠ September 9, 2009
➠ August 21, 2009
Date & Time
Opened up the laptop in Cambridge, and noticed my laptop's timezone had already been set.
Witchcraft!
➠ August 20, 2009
➠ June 25, 2009
The four most important buttons on my Dashboard
The single-serving-site loveliness of Instant Crickets, Bom Bom Bom Bom Wooo, Instant Rimshot and Sad Trombone, clipped to my OS X dashboard for those times they're urgently needed.
➠ June 8, 2009
TwitterCounter Stats for rodbegbie
Can you spot the day that Twitter changed its algorithm for displaying friend icons so that early adopters such as myself didn't get disproportional prominence?
➠ April 3, 2009
Current: Having its feminist cake and eating it too
On the page of the very funny Target Women segment attacking Carl's Jr's sexist advertising campaign, Current.com promotes videos called "Adult Videos", "InfoMania: Spring Break" (illustrated with a girl in a bikini) and "Taxes and BOOBS" in the hope of snaring some precious pageviews.
Updated to add some clarification:
It's not so much the *content* offending me as the salacious titling of segments with a goal of getting page views seeming hypocritical when paired with Sarah's segment.
Attempting to profit from a funny, well-argued segment attacking mindless misogyny while simultaneously pushing content by giving a video a misleading title and thumbnail just strikes me as duplicitous and makes me embarrassed to be a champion of Current.
➠ 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.)
➠ June 29, 2008
What I’ve been listening to
My last three months worth of listening. Generated with last.fm data and Wordle.
➠ June 27, 2008
Faster than a speeding…
My speed over the last year has been approximately that of a butterfly, according to my Dopplr profile.
➠ June 23, 2008
Facebook Map
My Facebook friends, mapped out using the Nexus app.
Major constellations are marked -- improvisers sure like their own, huh?
➠ June 19, 2008
➠ June 15, 2008
“If you see this message repeatedly, you may need to disable your ad blocking software”
You know what, Hulu? I don't think I will disable my ad-blocking software. It's almost like it's doing exactly what I want it to do.
➠ May 14, 2008
➠ April 26, 2008
Video Chat with Clyde
Thank you, The Internet, for making it possible for me to see my dogs when we're three time-zones apart. And confuse them by calling their names.
➠ April 24, 2008
Page 49 of this week’s Weekly Dig
Tucked amongst the usual advertisements, in the current edition of the W33kly D1g. Made me laugh.
➠ April 22, 2008
➠ April 2, 2008
MLB.TV Mosaic
Since NESN isn't really gonna be an option when we're in SF, I've signed up from the MLB.TV package. Their Mosaic application is pretty cool (if a tad rusty and prone to collapse at the moment) -- you can stream up to six games live to it, and flip the audio between games. Can definitely see hooking this up to the TV later in the season.
➠ March 7, 2008
“Unauthorized or improper use of this system may result in you hearing very bad music.”
The results of sshing to the new Slim Devices Controller remote control.
➠ December 22, 2007
➠ October 15, 2007
➠ October 13, 2007
File under “Maybe it’s just me, but…”
... given this photo is on the How to File a Claim page of my insurance company, doesn't it suggest that these adorable moppets have been injured, possibly fatally, in a car accident?
Just seems grisly to me.
➠ August 19, 2007
3953 mAh
Ouch! My MacBookPro's battery capacity has dropped to 71% -- but it was at 98-ish% before I left for this trip and used my laptop on battery power on the airplane and yesterday at BarCampBlock.
I suspect that I should be able to get the battery replaced at the Apple Store under warranty -- 30% capacity drop after 17 loadcycles doesn't sound right at all.
➠ August 15, 2007
➠ August 9, 2007
Silverlight spotted in the wild
This is the first time I've seen Microsoft's Flash-killer Silverlight plugin used on a genuine, non-Microsoft-demo website. MLB are using it to play video.
(Incidentally, how much do I regret deciding to favour getting sleep over finishing watching the game last night? Stupid west-coast games)
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.