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Rod Begbie

Somerville, MA
42.386677, -71.098267
groovymother.com/

About: Grumpy Scots git.

Lives in Somerville, MA. Earns pay in the R&D group at a consumer electronics company whose name RhymesWithNose. Blogs at groovymother.com

What are your favorite websites? Twitter, Reddit, UKNova, last.fm, OiNK, I Can Has Cheezburger?
What do you do when you AREN'T online? Sleep
List your 'tags' here boston, geek, scottish, curmudgeon, python, django, xmpp, jabber, REST, music, lolcats
What are you planning on presenting on (or leading a discussion on)? presentation skills
How did you find out about BarCampBlock? On the Internet(TM)

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Blog Posts

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Python 3.0 Release

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The backwardly-incompatible "Python 3000" gets its release. Will be interested to watch and see how fast code transitions to the new form.

Tapulous - Tap Tap Dance

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Stonking soundtrack to the new Tap Tap Revenge game (Daft Punk, Justice and Chemical Brothers, amongst others), and some trippy-ass visuals. Ace!

Prop 8 - The Musical

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Massive amounts of awesomeness abound. Three solid minutes of musical greatness.

Amazon Mobile for iPhone

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Amazon releases an iPhone app for optimized shopping, including an wickedly-clever tool that lets you snapshot products in bricks'n'mortar stores a...

Why Git is Better Than X

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Spent a chunk of today reading up on and playing around with git today. This summary seems pretty accurate from my initial pokings.

Papervision - Augmented Reality

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If you have a webcam/iSight, you *must* try this. Print out a symbol and make a 3D friend appear in your life!


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Comments

NancyF:

Great to meet another curmudgeon!