I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!

This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.

Entries for week beginning July 6, 2008

July 12, 2008

GraphJam: Let's Dance

David Bowie in flowchart form

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July 11, 2008

Modern Guilt

CD Purchase: Beck - Modern Guilt

July 10, 2008

Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore

Whizzy Amazon-browsing UI, for those who like to judge books by their covers.

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Yankee Stadium GigaPan

Yankee Stadium GigaPan

Me and Joy at Yankee Stadium. This is a screenshot of a zoomed-in portion of THIS photo, which covers the entire stadium.

My current mood is somewhere between mind-blown at the technology and terrified at the possibilities.

July 8, 2008

Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format

A smidgen of Google’s secret sauce — a lighter-weight-than-XML data interchange format, with heavily optimized cross-language serialization routines. Just the thing for shuttling and persisting data.

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Charlie Brooker: These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations

“The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric “peep” noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security.”

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The Greatest Bug of All

Or “Why you need to understand operating system fundamentals if you want to ship end-user software”

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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.