Simon Willison’s Weblog

A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels. 4000 requests/second on 48 mongrels behind a hardware load balancer.

# 12:38 am / mongrel, rails, scaling

This site may harm your computer. Tom Dyson’s personal weblog was flagged by Google as hosting malicious software, without any clue as to what the problem was. Sure looks like a false positive to me.

# 9:26 am / google, tom-dyson, blacklists

SMTP Service Extension for Yadis Discovery. Could potentially let you use your e-mail address as an OpenID, although personally I wouldn’t always want to hand my address over to third-party sites.

# 9:44 am / openid, yadis, email, identity, dmitryshechtman

The window.onload problem (still). Peter Michaux offers the most comprehensive overview of this important topic to date.

# 8:13 pm / onload, javascript

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. Absolutely worth watching—don’t be put off by the title.

# 11:05 pm / web2, youtube