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Entries for week beginning September 30, 2007

October 6, 2007

Post-home-run Tweets

Post-home-run Tweets

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Manny Being Manny Being Interviewed

Manny Being Manny Being Interviewed

Jubilation

Jubilation

Seconds after Manny's decisive walk-off home-run.

(I like how arty this shot appears, when really it was just taken before my camera had completely woken up and adjusted to what was going on!)

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October 5, 2007

Helpful Reminder

Helpful Reminder

You have twenty minutes to run, if you want to catch the T home. Stupid 8:30pm starts!

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View from Grandstand 7 Row 12

View from Grandstand 7 Row 12

Not as good as our normal seats (pillars preventing us from seeing home plate or the Pesky Pole very well), but still a fun place to spend an evening.

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The Happy Couple

The Happy Couple

Celebrating 4 years of marriage. Linen and/or silk not pictured.

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October 4, 2007

The Journal of Joe The Peacock. Yay.: An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today

“Oh man, I wonder how they’d take it if I unmuted this line for just a second to let them hear how loud I’m laughing at all of this…”

Even after all this time on the internet, seatbelt fetishes are a new one by me.

This is a weird one — someone is scouring Flickr for photos of women in the back-seats of cars wearing their seatbelt.

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MHD

HD channel from MTV networks, made up of loads of music videos and concerts. Launched on DirecTV this morning, and looks a bit bloody good!

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October 3, 2007

iPhreedom

There have been a lot of posts over the last week about Apple updating the iPhone in such a way that blocks third-party software from being installed.

This may be sacrilegious as a geek who values freedom, but I think it’s worth stating…

The applications that Apple has cruelly denied users from installing on their iPhones… weren’t very good.

1984 theme

Sure, they were cool. The fact that using reverse-engineering, undocumented APIs, and wicked-smarts, folks were able to turn out an IM app or a NES emulator is truly impressive, and a feat which should be applauded.

That said, the “platform”, such as it is, isn’t ready. Applications don’t work terribly well, or consistently. The things I installed that felt the most polished and useful? Were all games and timewasters.

For example what good is an IM app or a Twitter client which stops updating when you switch to another application? Or which gets confused and crash when you lose network connection?

When presented with the choice to upgrade my iPhone to version 1.1.1 (and get a louder speakerphone, the one new feature I really cared about), or to stick with my hacked and customized iPhone, it wasn’t even a contest. I upgraded that evening. And apart from the funky customization of my home screen (pictured), I haven’t really missed the hacks.

Will Apple open up, release an SDK and allow anyone to compile code and deploy to their cellphone? Perhaps. (Will Apple force developers to go through some convoluted approval and/or signing process? More likely). But they won’t do that until the platform of the iPhone is at a stage where the apps you can run will work stunningly well.

And while the locks may have been reinforced with this firmware update, I suspect the ingenuity of the apps created thus far will only strengthen the case within Apple to make a SDK freely available.

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October 1, 2007

BBC NEWS | Adobe challenges word on the web

Congrats to the folks at Virtual Ubiquity. They’ve created a kick-ass application.

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September 30, 2007

Radiohead: In Rainbows

The new Radiohead album is released on the 10th, and will initially be available in only two forms: 1) Pay £40 for a deluxe box-set of two CDs and two LPs, or 2) Pay whatever you like for an MP3 download. I’ve chucked in £4, though will probably end up downloading it off of OiNK when the official servers are predictably swamped next week.

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Echoes Silence Patience & Grace

CD Purchase: Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience & Grace

jwz - PSA: backups

“The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it.”

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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.