Simon Willison’s Weblog

WriteToThem.com. The new FaxYourMP, now with more than just MPs.

# 14th February 2005, 3:39 pm

Orbitz add a moronic linking policy (via) I can’t believe lawyers still try and pull this kind of rubbish.

# 14th February 2005, 2:29 pm

Broadcatching. What you get when you cross podcasting with BitTorrent.

# 14th February 2005, 2:09 pm

How Do You Make Them Understand? Most organisations fail to understand effective web publishing.

# 14th February 2005, 12:53 pm

Pre-SXSW meet. Stuart’s writeup of Saturday.

# 14th February 2005, 12:51 pm

del.icio.us/popular with sparklines (via) Clever use of sparklines to show popularity over time.

# 14th February 2005, 3:30 am / delicious

London web geek meetup photos. My pictures on Flickr.

# 14th February 2005, 3:20 am / flickr

Jython road map. On the new Jython wiki.

# 13th February 2005, 7:29 pm / jython

Steam. Nice OS X application for making the most out of the BBC’s internet radio streams.

# 13th February 2005, 7:29 pm

iPod Launcher. I’m using this to backup my photo library whenever I plug in my iPod.

# 13th February 2005, 7:28 pm

Upgrading MySQL 4.0 to 4.1 (via) Some scary differences; PostgreSQL seems to be much better at this kind of thing.

# 12th February 2005, 12:01 am / mysql

Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets (via) Cool tricks with Google Maps and bookmarklets.

# 11th February 2005, 11:13 pm

Temporary anethetics (via) Comic strips by Don Hertzfeldt. File under sick, twisted and inspired.

# 11th February 2005, 9:26 pm

Here Is The News You May Have Missed. The Independent’s series of excellent front pages continues.

# 11th February 2005, 1:45 pm

DoubleCommand (via) A uControl alternative that works with 10.3.8.

# 10th February 2005, 5:23 pm

Lawrence Lessig on the West Wing. Rather strange. Leaves you wondering where he left his flux capacitator.

# 10th February 2005, 12:36 pm

South America warms to Open Source. Great summary of open source adoption in that part of the world.

# 10th February 2005, 12:15 pm

Gannon Quits After Blogger Inquiry (via) The left wing blogosphere finally have a scandal to call their own.

# 9th February 2005, 7:18 pm

Blog baiting. Jeremy Dunck on why AdWord whoring topical blogs will end in tears.

# 9th February 2005, 6:04 pm

Excel is to Business People as the Text Editor is to Geeks. Strange but true; we were talking about this the other night.

# 9th February 2005, 11:47 am

Outsourcing Torture. This left me sick to my stomach.

# 8th February 2005, 6:40 pm

UK Diaries I: Hail Britannia. Britain from an American’s point of view.

# 8th February 2005, 2:43 pm

Why Craigslist Works, by Craig. A ChangeThis manifesto.

# 8th February 2005, 12:59 pm

IDN and homographs spoofing (via) Good coverage of the related specs.

# 8th February 2005, 12:17 pm

Maps released. Google Maps Safari support is being worked on.

# 8th February 2005, 12:03 pm / chris-wetherell, google, google-maps, safari

Secure wireless email on Mac OS X. Doug Bowman’s tutorial on SSH Tunnel Manager and wireless security.

# 8th February 2005, 11:20 am / douglas-bowman, email, macos, security, ssh

Google Blog: Get the picture. Image search results now sometimes appear along side regular searches.

# 8th February 2005, 10:49 am

Google Maps (via) Very slick, but sadly non functional for Safari uses.

# 8th February 2005, 10:49 am

Nasty Firefox vulnerability and Double Standards. In which I am accused of hypocrisy (response in the comments).

# 8th February 2005, 10:44 am / firefox

Shoe Lacing Methods. Another reason to love the internet.

# 7th February 2005, 11:45 pm