Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Web Design Survey, 2007. A List Apart is trying to learn more about our community. 1:47 am

The sliding scale. Jeremy’s write-up of my panel at the Web 2.0 Expo, with illustrative photograph. 7:09 pm

Scribd. This appears to be social software for the huge population of people who can’t imagine creating anything without using Word. 7:22 pm

Oxford Geek Night videos. The videos from the last Oxford Geek Night have now been posted. 9:01 pm

The joy of pdb.set_trace(). I use nosetests --pdb-failures as my main entrypoint for Python debugging—it starts the debugger at the first failing test. 11:37 pm

Introducing http:BL (via) Project Honey Pot announce a new blacklist service for blocking comment spammers and e-mail spiders using information from their network of honey pots. 11:39 pm