Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning November 27, 2005

➠ December 2, 2005

The L in Linksys WRT54GL Stands for Linux

Linksys are now explicitly catering to the hardware hacker market by keeping their excellent Linux-based WRT54G routers available at a premium after downgrading the “consumer” model.

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Wired News: Airline Security a Waste of Cash

Excellent article by Bruce Schneier on the futility of current airport “security”.

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Guardian Unlimited | Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais is going to record a bunch of weekly podcasts, starting Monday.

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Bill of Rights - Security Edition

Fun! The Bill of Rights, printed on bits of metal that you’ll need to remove from your pocket next time you’re going through “security”.

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➠ December 1, 2005

How To Install Apple’s Front Row

Install Front Row on any Mac, not just the new iMacs.

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Dean Gray Tuesday

On December 13th, the now-banned Dean Gray “American Edit” album will be up for download from a bunch of locations — including groovymother.com. Spread the word.

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➠ November 30, 2005

MP3tunes Locker

Michael Robertson’s new site seems to be targeting itself as an “off-site backup” and synchronisation service for your music files, and therefore completely covered by fair-use. RIAA, start your lawyers.

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➠ November 28, 2005

try ruby! (in your browser)

This is an incredibly cool tutorial, and a way of playing with Ruby without downloading a danged thing.

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evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups

Some interesting, and reasonably common-sense, rules for startups.

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➠ November 27, 2005

Paint.NET

New version of the excellent free^2 Windows image editing software.

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Apple - Trailers - Cars - Teaser 4

The new teaser for Pixar’s next flick, Cars, hints that it may not suck as royally as the original trailer suggested. Thank goodness — I was worried for a moment!

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Emulating W3C ,tools with mod_rewrite

Nifty hack, enabled now on Groovy Mother, that allows you to check your webpages by tweaking the URLs.

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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.

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