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Entries for week beginning August 17, 2008

August 22, 2008

Ice Cream Sandwiches on the rooftop. Hurrah!

Ice Cream Sandwiches on the rooftop.  Hurrah!

The Ice(cream sandwich)Man Cometh

The Ice(cream sandwich)Man Cometh

View from the Current rooftop

View from the Current rooftop

August 20, 2008

Things - task management on the Mac

I will confess to having fallen somewhat head-over-heels in love with Things as a TODO list manager over the last couple of days. Requires some light symlinking-to-an-iDisk to “sync” across machines, but offers the right levels of “This is a task for today/soon/sometime” to help keep me organized. Next step: Play with the iPhone app.

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Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit

“ONLY BUILD STUFF FOR YOURSELF. That’s the Golden Rule of Building Stuff. If you’re planning to build something for someone else, let someone else build it.”

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REST Request

Another handy REST post. The API I’m building at work currently only uses GET & POST, this helps explain that it’s still “RESTful”

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iTeletext

MODE 7 lives! Teletext viewer for iPhone.

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August 19, 2008

Beautiful Future

CD Purchase: Primal Scream - Beautiful Future

August 18, 2008

Braid's ending explained

SPOILER, natch. Internet theorising about a non-obvious subtext to Braid’s story. If Portal was a video-game short-story, is Braid a video-game poem?

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Explaining REST to Damien Katz

A good “Wherefore REST?” post.

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BackwardsIncompatibleChanges - Django

Suspect I will be referring to this a lot over the next week or so as I bring my blog code up to snuff with the impending Django 1.0 release. (Currently have 95% working, but the hackedup comments code will take a bit more work…)

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Amazing but True Cat Stories

The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories.

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August 17, 2008

ERNEST BORGNINE - Secret to Old Age

Ernest Borgnine delivers a pitch-perfect stage whisper on Fox News.

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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.