Simon Willison’s Weblog

Sound Studio. Nice shareware sound editing app for OS X.

# 26th January 2005, 10:57 am

Kid by Example. It’s Yet Another Python Templating Language, but I have to admit it does look very cool.

# 26th January 2005, 10:23 am

A Plan for Spam Folders. Some people actually buy stuff from spam filtered to their spam folders.

# 25th January 2005, 10:56 pm

Tags != folksonomies && Tags != Flat name spaces. Clay Shirky’s latest thoughts on tags.

# 25th January 2005, 10:54 pm / clay-shirky, tagging

Burns supper. Happy Burns night!

# 25th January 2005, 9:24 pm

Where was desktop search when we needed it? Did you know Win XP and 2000 have a half-decent full text indexer built in?

# 25th January 2005, 4:11 pm

BBC Radio mp3 takes off. It seems the podcasting trial has been going pretty well.

# 25th January 2005, 11:23 am

BBC re-launches internet radio—everything in one place (via) Listen Again is fantastically useful.

# 25th January 2005, 11:22 am

Google Video Search: firefox. Recent mentions of Firefox on American TV.

# 25th January 2005, 9:52 am / firefox

THE FLICKR SONG. Oh Dear God...

# 24th January 2005, 10:01 pm / flickr

Gamma correction—Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mac users: activate expose on this page for some trippy alisaing effects.

# 23rd January 2005, 4:36 pm / wikipedia

Tiger Pics (via) Screenshots from a development build of OS X Tiger.

# 23rd January 2005, 1:12 am

Guardian style guide. Interesting to poke around in.

# 22nd January 2005, 11:19 pm

PyCon DC 2005 Preliminary Program (via) Looks like a great lineup.

# 22nd January 2005, 2:51 pm

The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software. The latest essay from Bruce Perens.

# 21st January 2005, 7:52 am

Rolling with Ruby on Rails. Extensive Rails tutorial on ONLamp.com.

# 21st January 2005, 7:50 am / rails

Free Software Magazine (via) A magazine that practices what it preaches.

# 20th January 2005, 9:41 pm

SpellBound 0.7.3 (via) Spellchecker extension for Firefox.

# 20th January 2005, 9:23 pm

Getters/Setters/Fuxors. The oddly titled definitive guide to getters and setters in Python.

# 20th January 2005, 8:27 am

GreaseMonkeyUserScripts. There are quite a few already.

# 20th January 2005, 12:16 am

Wikipedia: Shirky / (Tufte x Wattenburg) = ? Sparklines for Wikipedia: an outstanding idea.

# 19th January 2005, 11:12 pm / wikipedia

Interviewing at Google. An insight in to the Google interviewing process.

# 19th January 2005, 9:48 pm

IBM to Free Java—Next Week? The question mark means it’s a rumour.

# 19th January 2005, 4:54 pm / ibm, java

PostgreSQL: What’s New in 8.0. Win32 server, savepoints, tablespaces, plperl and more.

# 19th January 2005, 4:11 pm / postgresql

PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released. Includes a native Win32 port for the first time!

# 19th January 2005, 4:06 pm / postgresql

The Daily Express on Firefox. Ish. Amusing example of inaccuracy in mainstream media.

# 19th January 2005, 9:50 am / firefox

Google Blog: Preventing comment spam. I was right, then.

# 19th January 2005, 3 am

Small, Cheap, and Without a Display. John Gruber’s analysis of the MacWorld expo.

# 17th January 2005, 4 am / apple, john-gruber

franklinmint.fm: rel=“nofollow”. Robert spotted it first.

# 17th January 2005, 1:44 am

A Mac-to-PC switcher movie (via) Yet Another Parody, but this one made me chuckle.

# 16th January 2005, 11:08 pm