Simon Willison’s Weblog

podSites.com. Resources for creating mini websites to load on to iPods.

# 10th January 2005, 8:21 pm

Emulating Prototyping of DOM Objects in Internet Explorer. Paul Sowden with another cunning JavaScript hack.

# 10th January 2005, 12:24 am

Overcoming Procrastination (via) Some very smart sounding advice.

# 9th January 2005, 10:45 pm

Greasemonkey: Hacking the Web with JavaScript. Greasemonkey rocks! Here’s a simple tutorial from Michael Moncur.

# 8th January 2005, 12:38 pm / greasemonkey, javascript, michael-moncur, tutorial

Decorators and explanations. Adrian explains decorators, and shows how our CMS has evolved since I left.

# 8th January 2005, 12:33 pm

Open source documentation (via) Wiki’s for technical docs. Note to Mozilla: PLEASE do this for your DOM support!

# 8th January 2005, 12:25 pm

safari not running preventDefault and stopPropagation. I’ve been bitten by this too; anyone know of a workaround?

# 8th January 2005, 9:11 am

Publish or Be Damned. Excellent BBC Radio 4 program on the “open-access” movement in scientific publishing.

# 7th January 2005, 11:38 pm

Chicago 2004. Photos from my trip to Chicago in September 2004.

# 7th January 2005, 12:38 pm

Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism. Dan’s on fire! A subscription to this blog is strongly recommended.

# 6th January 2005, 11:52 pm

Truth and Bill Gates (via) Dan Gillmor’s outstanding response to the recent Bill Gates interview.

# 6th January 2005, 11:45 pm

CSS: Mark-up guides. A smart way of reducing the CSS maintainability problem.

# 6th January 2005, 9:04 pm

SxSW 2005: Confirmed Speakers. Whoa! It’s like an A-Z of cool people I’d like to meet.

# 6th January 2005, 5:20 pm

InfoWorld: Year of the enterprise Wiki (via) Wikis for business collaboration make a whole ton of sense.

# 6th January 2005, 4:42 pm / jon-udell, wikis

Gate’s Computer Crashes at CES. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

# 6th January 2005, 2:13 pm

Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal! (via) Brad’s post on the buy-out, with a detailed FAQ.

# 6th January 2005, 12:38 pm

Photos from my Christmas in France. Including my dad’s beautiful new horses.

# 6th January 2005, 1:57 am

map.search.ch Launch. Technical blog entry about the awesome maps.search.ch.

# 5th January 2005, 9:26 pm

ASCIIMathML.js. Translating ASCII math notation to Presentation MathML.

# 5th January 2005, 6:04 pm

XOM Design Principles. Excellent guidelines for any API design.

# 5th January 2005, 6:04 pm

map.search.ch (via) Unbelievably slick XMLHttpRequest powered map interface.

# 5th January 2005, 5:59 pm

The Urinals of the Millennium Dome (via) I’ve long been telling people that these were the highlight of my visit to the dome.

# 5th January 2005, 5:26 pm

Introducing mod_parrot. One Apache module for all the Parrot languages.

# 5th January 2005, 1:04 pm

Google Search: inurl:“MultiCameraFrame?Mode=” (via) Unsecured webcams, another Google Hack.

# 5th January 2005, 11:49 am

The Cultural Divide Between LiveJournal and Six Apart. Commentary on the rumoured Six Apart purchase of LiveJournal.

# 5th January 2005, 11:46 am

Review: The Sims 2 (via) This review had me in stitches.

# 4th January 2005, 6:49 pm

Pictures of Nothing. Tim Bray’s 2004 roundup.

# 1st January 2005, 10:15 am / tim-bray

Image:Banda Aceh Before and After 2004 Tsunami.jpg (via) Devastating.

# 1st January 2005, 10:14 am / wikipedia

Where have all the good databases gone (via) Adam Bosworth talks to the open source community.

# 1st January 2005, 10:14 am

Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (via) So much to read, so little time.

# 29th December 2004, 2:23 pm