“groovy mother” :: Rod Begbie's home for the propagation of hypertextual nonsense

January 7, 2009

Plan to wander round the Macworld Expo hall on Thursday morning, so if anyone fancies meeting up for breakfast/coffee/lunch on Thu, ping me.

Posted to Twitter at 12:50 a.m.

January 6, 2009

MOFO-MOFO is the FCKGW of iWork ‘09. http://tinyurl.com/a5n3u9

Posted to Twitter at 11:32 p.m.

Fun pushing-things-live evening. Going to wander by the iPhone Intelligence party on way to Bart and see if I can get in. If not, homewards!

Posted to Twitter at 9:13 p.m.

Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker

Full details on yesterday’s Twitter hack. Twitter’s admin interface was available offsite to all their admin users, one of whom has a weak password, plus their monitoring didn’t notice a dictionary attack going on. Oops.

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Filed under : security : twitter

I am unable to resist following @twitTheTwits. (via @blaine)

Posted to Twitter at 2:47 p.m.

Bostonfolks: Interested in buying a pair of face value 2009 Red Sox tickets? We’re selling our season tix. Email soxmeup@begbie.com for info

Posted to Twitter at 12:57 p.m.

TrueFact: The Slide IT dept’s realtime monitoring board displays numbers, graphs, alerts, and… the Shiba Inu puppy cam.

Posted to Twitter at 12:45 p.m.

January 5, 2009

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

The bitter payoff of the final paragraph is epic. I can only dream of being able to compose something so perfectly pointed. I’d probably have gone with “Fuck yous all. kthxbai”

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Filed under : apple : steve jobs

Looks like @BarackObama has been phished. http://rdbgb.us/1t7

Posted to Twitter at 9:39 a.m.

Obama Phished

Looks like the president-elect's Twitter credentials have been compromised.

Filed under : barackobama : phishing : security : twitter

Have reached a point where if I misspell a word and I get red squiggly underlines, but it looks right, I assume it’s “the British spelling”.

Posted to Twitter at 1:39 a.m.

January 4, 2009

Sen:te - GPGMail

The plugin for OS X’s Mail app which makes cryptography easily manageable.

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Filed under : download : email : free : gpg : mail.app : os x : pgp : security

The most important new feature in Python 3.0

import antigravity

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Filed under : python : python 3000 : xkcd

xkcd - Converting to Metric

I’m not sure why Americans think this is so hard…

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Filed under : funny : metric : xkcd : your mom

Quick cryptogeek note

I’m stopping using my old PGP key (0×8C80C35F). It’s been active for 12 years, and I had set it to expire later this year, so I’m retiring it now.

In its place is 0×1A5FFE23 which I will use for personal purposes for the next five years. It has been signed by 0×8C80C35F (as well as the CACert root key), so should be considered trustworthy. Almost all personal mail from me shall be signed with this key.

PS. I am not being rubber-hosed as I type this.

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Filed under : email : gpg : pgp : security

January 3, 2009

New begbie.com homepage is live (at http://new.begbie.com/ until the DNS changes propagate). The cobwebs on the old site were embarrassing!

Posted to Twitter at 11:08 p.m.

If the new Doctor, Matt Smith, is 26, he must have had a ZX Spectrum in the womb to write Manic Miner. #noonewillgetthis

Posted to Twitter at 10:30 a.m.

Had visions of doing nice things with sIFR and SVG on my new website. After much hair-pulling, now saying “fuck it” and making PNGs.

Posted to Twitter at 10:16 a.m.

January 2, 2009

Rebuilding 0%

And with that message, following a hard drive crash, the cash and effort spent building myself a RAID server two years ago pays for itself. (Assuming it makes it to 100%, natch)

Update: Exactly 100 minutes later, it reached 100%, and my FLACs and MP3s are secure once more. Hurrah!

Filed under : 3ware : hardware : raid : raid 5 : rebuilding

A month ago, I’d never used git. Now I love it dearly and have five repositories and a paid account on github.

Posted to Twitter at 4:59 p.m.

There are two correct reactions to pondering the technology of hard drives: 1) Marvel at the ingenious intricacy 2) “Shit, I need to backup”

Posted to Twitter at 3:49 p.m.

Quite fond of @twetiquette.

Posted to Twitter at 3:13 p.m.

Thoroughly enjoying @annapickard’s live blogging of the Celebrity Big Brother launch. http://rdbgb.us/6ct

Posted to Twitter at 1:43 p.m.

My goal for January: No booze or soda (diet OR sugary), and only eating vegetarian food for lunch. #diet #nyres

Posted to Twitter at 11:24 a.m.

Umbrellas remembered: 0. Umbrellas left on BART: 1. You win *this* round, 2009.

Posted to Twitter at 10:45 a.m.

Oh, Citizens Bank. You’re so cute! Claiming that the bank account we haven’t touched in months was now $113 overdrawn. <tugs cheek>

Posted to Twitter at 8:27 a.m.

January 1, 2009

OH: “It’s the Fonz… but gay!”

Posted to Twitter at 2:18 p.m.

My eyepatch. Calling it a night. Happy 2009, one and all. - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nTt

Posted to Twitter at 2:28 a.m.

San Francisco

My eyepatch. Calling it a night. Happy 2009, one and all.

On the BART home. - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nS8

Posted to Twitter at 1:41 a.m.

Civic Center Station

On the BART home.

POP! Music. - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nRK

Posted to Twitter at 1:23 a.m.

BART - Powell Street Station

POP! Music.

JOY! - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nRC

Posted to Twitter at 1:20 a.m.

BART - Powell Street Station

JOY!

Joy, Mark and Ali. *This* is 2009. - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nQw

Posted to Twitter at 12:48 a.m.

DNA Lounge

Joy, Mark and Ali. *This* is 2009.

This is genuinely my best new year in 6 years. And in 2003, I got engaged and married. Bodes well…

Posted to Twitter at 12:13 a.m.

Happy! New! Year!

Posted to Twitter at midnight

December 31, 2008

Not only am I ringing in the new year wearing an eyepatch, I’m ringing in the new year wearing an eyepatch that benefitted 826 Valencia.

Posted to Twitter at 11:53 p.m.

Ah, that magic moment when Mark realises that the woman on stage, erm, isn’t a woman. Welcome to SF. - http://bkite.com/03nNj

Posted to Twitter at 11:46 p.m.

Smash-Up Derby - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nMj

Posted to Twitter at 11:28 p.m.

DNA Lounge

Smash-Up Derby

Yarrrr! - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nLp

Posted to Twitter at 11:08 p.m.

DNA Lounge

Yarrrr!

50 minutes late, but happy new year to all our friends on the east coast. We miss you guys.

Posted to Twitter at 9:53 p.m.

Pre-club cocktails. - Photo: http://bkite.com/03nE3

Posted to Twitter at 9:38 p.m.

Hotel Rex

Pre-club cocktails.

Happy new year to my GMT homies.

Posted to Twitter at 4:08 p.m.

Winner of the prize for “best headline relating to all the Zunes crashing” goes to @parislemon for http://ff.im/-s3P4

Posted to Twitter at 12:48 p.m.

“groovy mother...”

it's like the internet, only smaller

January 7, 2009

January 6, 2009

Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker

January 5, 2009

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Obama Phished

January 4, 2009

Sen:te - GPGMail

The most important new feature in Python 3.0

xkcd - Converting to Metric

Quick cryptogeek note

January 3, 2009

January 2, 2009

Rebuilding 0%

January 1, 2009

San Francisco

Civic Center Station

BART - Powell Street Station

BART - Powell Street Station

DNA Lounge

December 31, 2008

DNA Lounge

DNA Lounge

Hotel Rex