Simon Willison’s Weblog

IE7’s Feature List. Positive commentary on IE7, predicting better standards support and tabbed browsing.

# 19th February 2005, 4:50 pm

Schneier on Security: Cryptanalysis of SHA-1. If you want to understand the “breaking” of SHA-1, this is the place to go. Surprisingly accessible.

# 19th February 2005, 3:12 pm / bruce-schneier, cryptanalysis, hashing, security, sha

Wikiphilia—The New Illness. As a certifiable wikiphile, I’m inclined to disagree with most of this. Still makes for a great read though.

# 19th February 2005, 2:46 pm

Did he mention workflow? A beautiful response to jwz’s groupware rant.

# 17th February 2005, 11:10 pm

Press release spam is the new comment spam. “SEO Showdown: Real Results vs. the Straw Man”

# 17th February 2005, 11:03 pm

Announcing WordPress 1.5 (via) The new features look awesome. I’m considering switching very soon.

# 17th February 2005, 10:14 pm

Google Maps Live (via) Firefox extension for tracking latitude/longitude data fed to a socket in real time on Google Maps.

# 17th February 2005, 8:31 pm

A parent’s primer to computer slang (via) According to MS, “pwn” is a leet word possibly indicating illegal activity.

# 17th February 2005, 9:27 am

GoogleMapsHacking. Jeremy Dunck’s wiki page collecting Google Maps Hacks.

# 16th February 2005, 10:30 pm

Cocoa and the Emerging Software Market. Cocoa is letting small teams build big things.

# 16th February 2005, 10:29 pm

jwz on Hula (via) jwz tears groupware a new belly button.

# 16th February 2005, 3:04 pm

Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken. Whoa.

# 16th February 2005, 4:47 am / bruce-schneier, hashing, security, sha

QuirksBlog: Explorer 7? PPK’s pretty certain there won’t be any core engine improvements.

# 15th February 2005, 7:06 pm

Internet Explorer 7. It’s been announced, but the stated focus is security and anti-phishing. No news on improved CSS.

# 15th February 2005, 7:04 pm / css, ie7, internet-explorer, phishing, security

Turn yourself in to a cyberpunk electrostatic porcupine. “Coat with static quills that stand up and shoot lighting when wearer is threatened”.

# 15th February 2005, 4:01 pm

419 comment spam? It certainly has the hallmarks.

# 15th February 2005, 1:54 pm

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