“groovy mother” :: Entries for week beginning December 28, 2008

➠ 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!

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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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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”

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Posted to Twitter at 3:49 p.m.

Quite fond of @twetiquette.

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Posted to Twitter at 3:13 p.m.

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

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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

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Posted to Twitter at 11:24 a.m.

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

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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>

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Posted to Twitter at 8:27 a.m.

➠ January 1, 2009

OH: “It’s the Fonz… but gay!”

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Posted to Twitter at 2:18 p.m.

San Francisco

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

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

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Posted to Twitter at 2:28 a.m.

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

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Posted to Twitter at 1:41 a.m.

Civic Center Station

On the BART home.

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

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Posted to Twitter at 1:23 a.m.

BART - Powell Street Station

POP! Music.

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

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Posted to Twitter at 1:20 a.m.

BART - Powell Street Station

JOY!

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

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Posted to Twitter at 12:48 a.m.

DNA Lounge

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

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

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Posted to Twitter at 12:13 a.m.

Happy! New! Year!

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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.

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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

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Posted to Twitter at 11:46 p.m.

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

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Posted to Twitter at 11:28 p.m.

DNA Lounge

Smash-Up Derby

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DNA Lounge

Yarrrr!

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

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Posted to Twitter at 11:08 p.m.

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

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Posted to Twitter at 9:53 p.m.

Hotel Rex

Pre-club cocktails.

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

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Posted to Twitter at 9:38 p.m.

Happy new year to my GMT homies.

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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

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Posted to Twitter at 12:48 p.m.

CD Purchase: Elvis Costello - The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years

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30GB Zune apocalypse arrives as devices enter digital coma

All 30Gb Zunes go kaput simultaneously. The only reason these devices care what day it is? The secure clock used by their DRM.

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Filed under : clusterfuck : drm : microsoft : zune

Just worked out that this is the first time in my life that I’ve gone into work on New Years Eve.

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Posted to Twitter at 9:17 a.m.

➠ December 30, 2008

Warning to anyone who might be downwind of me over the next few days: Dining at “The Stinking Rose” tonight (http://rdbgb.us/8UR)

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Posted to Twitter at 6:32 p.m.

Best of Bootie 2008 CD

Awesomesauce! The new Best of Bootie mashup CD is ready for download.

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Filed under : bootie : download : mashup : mp3 : music

Stealth Bagpuss

Lurking 'neath my laptop.

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Filed under : bagpuss : macbookpro

Lurking ‘neath my laptop. - Photo: http://bkite.com/03kWB

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Posted to Twitter at 12:33 p.m.

Dave Barry Year in Review: Bailing out of 2008

“Barack Obama, in a historic triumph, becomes the nation’s first black president since the second season of 24”

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Filed under : 2008 : dave barry : funny

MD5 considered harmful today

MD5 collisions can be used to make SSL certificates that modern browsers will trust for any domain. This is a: Bad Thing.

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Filed under : md5 : security : ssl

Carrying Gunpowder through Airport Security

Because if they’re in small containers in a plastic baggie, they *can’t* be dangerous…

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Filed under : gunpowder : security : security theatre : tsa

The first person I followed on Twitter was @Hybernaut. http://tinyurl.com/9cflat #firstfollow

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Posted to Twitter at 9:39 a.m.

Current Status: http://rdbgb.us/kD9

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Posted to Twitter at 9:07 a.m.

➠ December 29, 2008

New Year’s Eve party plans made: Going to Bootie (http://bootiesf.com/). Anyone fancy joining us?

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Posted to Twitter at 3:39 p.m.

Comedy

One of the new conference rooms at Slide.

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Filed under : comedy : slide

“Comedy” - one of the new conference rooms at Slide. - Photo: http://bkite.com/03jwi

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Posted to Twitter at 3:08 p.m.

➠ December 28, 2008

Lazarus: Restore lost forms with a single click

Firefox extension to help avoid “crashed browser/lost textarea” syndrome.

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Filed under : autosave : download : firefox : free : plugin

Envy Code R preview #7 (scalable coding font)

New monospaced coding font. Giving it a spin, but I’m still partial to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

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Filed under : coding : fonts

Television Tropes & Idioms

“This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction.” Tell your Checkov’s Gun from your Deus Ex Machina.

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Filed under : clichés : tropes : writing

OH from next room: “*gasp* Daleks! … Oh, FUCK!”. Joy’s really getting into Doctor Who!

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Posted to Twitter at 9:31 p.m.

Brand New: Best & Worst 2008

The best and worst logo redesigns of 2008. I quite like their April 1st Ford redesign — wish it had been for reals!

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Filed under : design : graphic design : logos

Lost track of days. Only now realizing, at 3am, that I missed the @laughingsquid party tonight. Lesson learned: Never shutdown Twitterrific.

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Posted to Twitter at 3:05 a.m.