Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning January 7, 2007

➠ January 13, 2007

Best of Bootie 2006 CD

Some stonking mashups on this album. The Bon Jovi vs. George Michael “Careless or Dead” is a particular favourite in this household.

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Things My Rabbit, Doozer, Said to Me Last Night, Within Six Hours of Me Posting a Link Allowing Web Visitors to Make Him Speak

  • Message from Citizen Nabaztag : Hi Doozer! My Name is Citizen Nabaz and Im very happy to meet you!
  • Message from Tape : blah blah blah?
  • Message from lmorchard : Lucifer helps me prepare the chex mix
  • Message from M : will it blend?
  • Message from Rey : I miss myself!
  • Message from Me : One day i will crush all humans
  • Message from The Spice Girls : Tell me what you want. What you really really want.
  • Message from Bacon : I am totally sleeping with your wife. (I think Joy might have helped Bacon type this, since he was asleep on our bed at the time)

Carry on.

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Stupid Comics

A collection of first panels from the annuals of British girls comics such as Bunty and Mandy. All the ponies, photo stories, and boarding school hijinx you could ever hope for.

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Rudebox

CD Purchase: Robbie Williams - Rudebox

Doctor Who: Original TV Soundtrack

CD Purchase: Murray Gold - Doctor Who: Original TV Soundtrack

➠ January 12, 2007

Send a Message to doozer, my Nabaztag!

Type in your message and your name, and my rabbit will read it out loud to me.

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NME.COM - Girls Aloud and Sugababes to duet

This cannot fail to be BLUDDY GRATE P!O!P!

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Wired News: Skeptic Revamps $1M Psychic Prize

James Randi tweaks the rules for qualifying for his $1m prize to aim at psychics/frauds who have a “media profile”, rather than everyday deluded Joes.

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NabazLab

Proxy for Nabaztag which allows you to control your rabbit without having to go through the central servers (which are decidedly flakey at the moment)

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➠ January 11, 2007

CrashPlan

Impressive looking network backup software. Straightforward to set-up, you can either pay CrashPlan to backup to their servers, or use local or friends’ hard drives for free. Lots of nice touches, like using Bonjour to discover local backup destinations automatically. Once the Linux client is ready, I’ll be in heaven.

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Doozer and a Doozer

Doozer and a Doozer

On the left, a doozer. On the right, my new Nabaztag/tag, who I've named "Doozer".

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Schneier on Security: Choosing Secure Passwords

Choose better passwords through understanding how brute-crackers work these days.

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➠ January 10, 2007

BBC NEWS | Public can purchase $100 laptop

Fantastic if it pans out — The great unwashed will be allowed to buy (on eBay?!) an OLPC laptop, so long as they simultaneously pay for a second one to be shipping to the developing world. Sign me up!

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SitePen Blog » Offline Gmail and Blogger Using the Dojo Offline Toolkit

First stages of the Dojo “offline toolkit”: Mockups imagining how it could be used to make GMail or Blogger usable when you don’t have an active net connection. Looks like it could be a game-changer.

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Crumpled Clyde

Crumpled Clyde

Playing with my new camera. Here's Clyde's preferred sleep position: Head off the mat, ear covering eyes and/or nose.

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O'Reilly Radar > TurkTunes?

Combine Amazon’s various webservices to create a “hum a song into a microphone and find out what it is” system. Most cunning feature: Using the “Mechanical Turk” artificial-artificial-intelligence service to use humans to identify your humming!

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➠ January 9, 2007

Mii Buttons

Badges made with your Mii and your Wii Number to make it easy to find new friends for your Wii.

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Apple - iPhone

All respect to Apple: this is a beautiful thing. If I win the lottery, I’ll be sure to buy one. Big question for me: How easy is it to write software/widgets to run on the phone?

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Apple - Apple TV

This is going to hurt Squeezebox quite a bit, I imagine. The second someone works out how to stream DiVX files from off-of BitTorrent to this without transcoding, I’m in.

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Nothing Changes Under The Sun

CD Purchase: Blue States - Nothing Changes Under The Sun

Order your Apple TV now!

Amazon have Apple TVs ready to ship right now!

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Wild Charge Hands-On: Really Does Charge Wirelessly - Gizmodo

I hope this works — It would be great to have a “charger mat” on the table next to my front door so my wife and I can just drop our cellphone there and have it charged the next morning, rather than having to faff around with our incompatible wall warts.

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xmpp4moz - Trac

Yowsers! A Firefox extension that enables simple asynchronous webapps, using Jabber’s XMPP prototcol. If this gets legs, it could be the birth of some wicked cool stuff.

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Bloggers unite! Yahoo! joins forces with MyBlogLog - Yodel Anecdotal

Yahoo buys MyBlogLog (no, really, etc.)

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➠ January 8, 2007

Twitter / bbcnews

Handy — BBC News’s RSS feed being Twittered.

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DirecTV Sat-Go Is Real, So Are 100 More HD Channels - Gizmodo

One of the more interesting gadgets I’ve heard about from CES so far: a portable DirecTV system. It’s a case that unfolds as screen, tuner and satellite “dish”.

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➠ January 7, 2007

Delayed sleep phase syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Busy reading up on Wikipedia about sleep disorders, and I think this may be the one I face. Going to keep a sleep log for a few weeks and try and narrow it down before pestering my GP.

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DjangoID - Trac

Django-based OpenID server. It almost seems daft *not* to be running that here.

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Pavatar - Recognize me!

Attempt to standardise personal avatar lookup, in a manner similar to favicons.

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PC World - Just Cancel the @#%$* Account!

Documenting just how nightmarish it can be to cancel a free trial.

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Do The Write Thing

Comments are now live once more. Nothing fancy like OpenID or whatnot, but enough so you can tell me where to stick it.

Theoretically, I could enable comments on posted links, rather than just posts. Anyone got any interest in that?

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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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