Yaypir!
Seriously, you don’t want to know how long I spent making this.
(Source: The opening credits of the current series of Survivor)
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Entries for week beginning February 15, 2009
➠ February 21, 2009
Since Joy and I are both ill, we’ve been giving the bassets a run for their “sleeping all hours” titles.
Posted to Twitter at 10:09 p.m.
➠ February 20, 2009
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
One of the best explanations for the mess we currently find ourselves in.
Flux
“F.lux makes your computer’s lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.”
Supervisor
Handy lightweight process-launcher-and-watcher. Features like “restart this process if it swallows too much resident memory” are going to be handy.
rodbegbie's threequarters at master - GitHub
Probably of no interest to anybody but me, but the source code that powers groovymother.com is now publicly available on GitHub.
➠ February 19, 2009
And now I’m sick too — just a cold, but still…
Our apartment is SNIFFLES CITY Population: Mucus
Posted to Twitter at 2:09 a.m.
➠ February 18, 2009
My Charming Wife (or: “Why letting Rod have a pocket sized video camera was a bad idea”): http://vimeo.com/3265373
Posted to Twitter at 1:04 a.m.
➠ February 17, 2009
Joy diagnosed with bronchitis, meaning my guesses of “Wrenched Ankle”, “Bread Basket” or “Writer’s Cramp” were all wrong. Damn you Operation
Posted to Twitter at 10 p.m.
After asking Joy about producing a specimen, the nurse introduced herself as Latrina. Since she was about to giv… - http://bkite.com/04JjG
Posted to Twitter at 7:52 p.m.
Hell is: an hour in a waiting room with a TV tuned to Family Guy reruns. - http://bkite.com/04Jik
Posted to Twitter at 7:38 p.m.
Amanda Palmer: On Abortion, Rape, and Humor
Amanda Palmer on her song “Oasis” being rejected for airplay by the British music media. While I could understand the “mainstream” (Radio 1, MTV, The Box) knocking it back, it’s sad to see that 6 Music, NME et al are also afeard of perceived offense.
Considering submitting this as a talk for Ignite SF. What do folks think? Does it sound interesting enough? http://rdbgb.us/N7T.
Posted to Twitter at 11:31 a.m.
“13 Amps Ought To Be Enough For Anybody”
Thinking of submitting this as a proposal for a five-minute talk at the Web 2.0 Expo Ignite night. What do folks think? Sound interesting?
“13 Amps Ought To Be Enough For Anybody”: A tribute to the Great British plug!
The curse of the business traveller. You leave the comfy confines of your native habitat, and find your laptop running low on juice. “No problem!” you think, reaching for your power pack. But drat and alas! The power socket is in some crazy configuration which denies entry to your humble two-prongs.
Rod Begbie proudly dons his nationalistic hat, hurrahs a hearty “Rule Britannia”, and romps through the history of that oddest of designs, BS 1363, or “the British plug”.
As we webbies attempt to design front-ends and APIs that we hope upon hope could be used for as many as “a few” years, take a look at the choices made in the 1940s which still affect every toaster, lamp and fifty-inch-high-definition-plasma-widescreen-surround-sound-home-entertainment-system on that sceptered isle.
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➠ February 16, 2009
After losing their umbrella, some people would go out during lunch to buy a new one.
Me? I order one from Amazon with overnight shipping.
Posted to Twitter at 11:22 a.m.
Happy Presidents’ Day!
We are the
Adequate, forgettable,
Occasionally regrettable
Caretaker presidents of the USA!
http://rdbgb.us/pres
Posted to Twitter at 11 a.m.
➠ February 15, 2009
Happiness is: Finding a bag of Gummy Worms in a cupboard that I forgot I’d bought at Safeway.
Current status: Nom nom nom.
Posted to Twitter at 11:31 a.m.
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