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Entries for week beginning August 13, 2006

August 19, 2006

Joy, Asleep, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

Joy, Asleep, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

Joy hadn't had enough sleep, and her epilepsy was playing up, so for her, the walking tour of Kilmainham Gaol was more of a napping-and-leaning tour.

August 18, 2006

Faces, Too, Are Searched at U.S. Airports - New York Times

Good move by the TSA: Investing in training screeners with the ability to pick out suspicious characters at the airport; skills that can be used regardless of whether a “bad guy” is planning on using liquids, boxcutters, or dental floss as part of their “plot”.

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SnapStream Blog » Project Hoover: Suck up every TV show in the new fall season, be your own TV critic

Build yourself an 11-tuner DVR so you can record every new show this season without having to think about it.

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What Right-Wingers See When They Read The New York Times.

“By reporting this entirely true information, we hope to sap America’s fighting spirit”

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This Film’s Crap Let’s Slash The Seats

CD Purchase: David Holmes - This Film’s Crap Let’s Slash The Seats

Curb Your Enthusiasm

CD Purchase: Original Soundtrack - Curb Your Enthusiasm

August 17, 2006

Snakes which are neither on a plane, nor in a movie theater

Snakes which are neither on a plane, nor in a movie theater

AMC apparently has a policy that you are not allowed to take rubber snakes into movie theaters showing Snakes on a Plane. These were the contraband snakes confiscated prior to this evening's showing.

Plans, and the best-laidness thereof.

Three years ago, as I was preparing for my last trip to my native Scotland, I glanced at the weather forecast for the trip, and saw rain for every day we were there.

Tomorrow, Joy & I leave for another trip to Scotland. It’s August, the brief period when it stops raining, and is sunny, right?

Right?

Rain, rain and more rain

Two days where it’s merely “partly cloudy”? Ah, that’s the Scottish summer I know and love.

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View from the bridge *over* the Victory Bridge

View from the bridge *over* the Victory Bridge

The red carpet bridge was right below us, but we took another thirty minutes to find our way there.

The Davis Mega-Maze Thursday 1:31 pm 8/17/06 South Lancaster, Massachusetts

The Davis Mega-Maze  Thursday 1:31 pm 8/17/06 South Lancaster, Massachusetts

This afternoon, our team at work took a group outing (under the auspices of "team building exercise") to the Davis Mega-Maze, a massive maze through 10-foot-tall corn. It took us an hour to find our way out!

August 16, 2006

Google Music Trends

Google appear to be building their own scrobbler — The new Google Talk client lets you opt to send your Winamp/iTunes/etc playback data up to Google.

eBay: Kiko Calendar: website, software and domain

Justin & Emmett are throwing in the towel with Kiko, the Y Combinator-funded whizzy AJAX calendaring app. When they built to flip, I can’t imagine this is how they were hoping to go.

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FuzzyOcrPlugin - Spamassassin Wiki

SpamAssassin plugin which OCRs the images attached to image-only mails to work out if they contain text like V14GRA. I imagine this is massively CPU-intense, but it might be worth looking at.

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August 15, 2006

Apple - Boot Camp

Apple have quietly snuck out a new release of Boot Camp. Now, Windows has support for the iSight camera and internal microphone baked into the MacBooks, meaning they’re pretty much ideal for usability testing using something like TechSmith’s Morae.

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MT Hacks FastSearch

The shitty search built into MovableType has been hammering my server. Hopefully this’ll be a decent drop-in replacement.

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no$gba - nocash gameboy advance emulator

DS emulator which can play “backup” ROMs on your PC.

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yes.com visualization

See what’s playing on radio stations across the USA, in realtime.

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How To Break Web Software - A look at security vulnerabilities in web software - Google Video

Google TechTalk from one of the authors of “How to Break Web Software”.

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August 14, 2006

Nikto

Vulnerability scanner purely aimed at web servers.

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Scooby Snacks

Scooby Snacks

When I got home from work, there was an unexpected package on the doorstep from Petco.com.

"Crap!", thinks I. "Clearly Bacon has got himself a credit card, and entered the murky world of e-commerce."

Luckily, it turned out to be a gift from the lovely folks at Reddit, as thanks to Bacon for appearing in banner ads for them!

As a precaution, though, I've taken away Bacon's pre-authorized credit-card application forms. You can't be too careful.

G6Flash Nintendo DS flash cartridge

Combined with the Passkey3, allows you to view movies, play MP3s, and enjoy homebrew and *cough* backup games on your DS.

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August 13, 2006

US to launch RFID passports on Monday

Joy’s new passport arrived yesterday (Yes, for our international travel on Friday. We Begbies are noted for our inability to have our passports ready far in advance of travel). Luckily, this means she’s avoiding the RFID nightmare for ten years.

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Schneier on Security: Last Week's Terrorism Arrests

Bruce Schneier on the futility of banning liquids from carry-on luggage in the long-term. I imagine that that’s not going to stop the TSA, though.

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What Makes It Go?

CD Purchase: Komeda - What Makes It Go?


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.