Simon Willison’s Weblog

My Washington D.C. photos. Touristy photos. Includes squirrels... and ENIAC!

# 4th April 2005, 1:43 am / eniac, flickr, photos, squirrels

Adding a ’bak’ comment to your .bash_profile. Quickly create a timestamped backup of a file.

# 3rd April 2005, 11:44 pm

CSS tips and tricks, Part 2. Floats, centering, CSS hacks.

# 3rd April 2005, 8:15 pm

CSS tips and tricks, Part 1. The cascade, descendant selectors and more.

# 3rd April 2005, 8:14 pm

Yahoo Favelets. Bookmarklets for enhancing Yahoo! member profile search.

# 3rd April 2005, 7:17 pm

Patterns of Intermediation. Design patterns for bookmarklets, greasemonkey and similar.

# 3rd April 2005, 7:16 pm / bookmarklets, design-patterns, greasemonkey

Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching. In light of the whole WordPress kerfluffle, I’m surprised this story didn’t get much attention.

# 3rd April 2005, 6:58 pm

SxSW 2005 photos. I finally got around to posting my SxSW photos to Flickr.

# 3rd April 2005, 5:52 am / flickr

How to Use UTF-8 with Python. When to use that tricky .encode() method.

# 2nd April 2005, 8:49 am

amazon2melvyl. Greasemonkey script that embeds icons in data: URIs—kudos to Phil Ringnalda for that idea.

# 2nd April 2005, 8:43 am / greasemonkey, phil-ringnalda

Announcing Head First Scheme. If only...

# 1st April 2005, 10:48 pm

April 1, 2005—Wikipedia. The definitive list.

# 1st April 2005, 8:28 pm / wikipedia

del.icio.us/tag/aprilfools. No need for me to keep linking to them now.

# 1st April 2005, 6:53 pm / delicious

stopdesign.com. Hit refresh a few times.

# 1st April 2005, 6:38 pm

Google Job Opportunities (via) Work... on the moon!

# 1st April 2005, 6:26 pm

Google April’s Fool Search: simon.incutio.com. That’s pretty cool :)

# 1st April 2005, 6:25 pm

43 Folders: April Power Hacks! I like number 8.

# 1st April 2005, 6:02 pm

2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia. Hostile takeover!

# 1st April 2005, 4:19 pm

Dubai: “Sure, we can build that.”. More crazy architecture in Dubai. This time they’re trying for the world’s tallest building.

# 1st April 2005, 4:17 pm

Boring Boring (via) A directory of dull things—outstanding parody.

# 1st April 2005, 2:39 pm

Custom checkbox (via) The right way to do custom checkbox graphics.

# 1st April 2005, 2:26 pm

Mark Pilgrim goes both ways. Fighting greasemonkey scripts.

# 1st April 2005, 2:24 pm / greasemonkey, mark-pilgrim

Greasemonkey for Internet Explorer. Requires the .NET framework—still has some way to go.

# 1st April 2005, 2:23 pm / greasemonkey, internet-explorer

Stricter Whitespace Enforcement. Finally! Guido tightens the rules on whitespace.

# 1st April 2005, 2:23 pm / guido-van-rossum, python

Google Gulp. Quench your thirst for knowledge.

# 1st April 2005, 2:22 pm

Google Ride Finder (via) Shows live positions of taxis using Google Maps.

# 1st April 2005, 2:22 pm

Web Technology Put To Good Use (via) Ben Brown explains how tags will get you laid on his new dating site, Consumating.

# 31st March 2005, 7:15 pm

Where the eye falls. Cool graphic showing an eye tracker study of a Google search results page.

# 31st March 2005, 6:20 am

Ajax forest, Remote Scripting trees. Brent Ashley, father of the JSRS library, kicks in on Ajax.

# 30th March 2005, 7:19 pm / ajax, javascript, brent-ashley

On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures. To read.

# 30th March 2005, 7:18 pm