Simon Willison’s Weblog

Real Obnoxious (via) A litanty of Real Player atrocities.

# 5th March 2004, 5:40 am

The Happy Poster Project. “A smile is for life, not just for kittens”

# 5th March 2004, 5:38 am

Art, licenses and freedom (via) Jono Bacon on LugRadio’s CC license.

# 4th March 2004, 10:50 pm / art

Unicode Regular Expressions. [a \U00010450] Match “a” or U+10450 SHAVIAN LETTER PEEP

# 3rd March 2004, 3:06 am

Pages. Clean and simple content management.

# 3rd March 2004, 3:04 am

Additional Headsurfer Comments Regarding SCO Contract. EV1 on why they paid up. Their customers on why they aren’t too happy.

# 2nd March 2004, 5:46 pm

Lilly.hu. Another big corporation with a valid HTML 4 and CSS website. Congrats Nat.

# 2nd March 2004, 8:01 am

For Windows Users, ’Browser Hijacking’ Is Only the Latest Threat (via) The Washington Post recommends Firefox or Mozilla over IE.

# 1st March 2004, 4:38 pm

SSCrabble (via) Scrabble in Javascript and CSS. Very impressive.

# 1st March 2004, 4:37 pm

Defending YAGNI. I’ve been learning to say YAGNI recently.

# 1st March 2004, 4:24 pm / yagni

Goodle Good News (via) From everyone’s favourite search engine (maybe).

# 28th February 2004, 1:57 am

Mod_python’s PSP: Python Server Pages. Grisha spills the beans for ONLamp.

# 27th February 2004, 8:45 pm / python

Textpattern: Download. Texpattern 1.12 gamma is go.

# 26th February 2004, 3:06 am

Finding open locks on Postgresql. May come in useful in the future.

# 26th February 2004, 2:33 am / postgresql

Software that we really need. b3ta Photoshop challenge. Some of these are priceless.

# 26th February 2004, 2:14 am

Classic computer science texts (via) A collection of historic computer science papers.

# 26th February 2004, 12:42 am

Gothamist Interviews: Paul Ford. “the only way to ignore advertising is to die”

# 25th February 2004, 11:47 pm

Side-stepping IE. A round-up of techniques for dealing with IE’s poor CSS support.

# 25th February 2004, 8:58 pm

Freedom to Tinker: Great Books. Which five science and technology books should every student read?

# 25th February 2004, 8:57 pm

Yahoo! vs. Google. Visually compare the top 100 results for a specific term.

# 25th February 2004, 8:56 pm

Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5 (via) It’s getting closer...

# 25th February 2004, 8:46 pm / php, php5

Google Search: spong monkeys. I’m second. Rock!

# 25th February 2004, 3:32 pm / google, search-engines, spongmonkeys

Tear Your iPod mini Open To Get The 4GB Hard Drive? 4GB of Digital Camera storage for less than half the normal price.

# 25th February 2004, 3:23 pm

Trepanation. Drilling a hole in your head. Not for the squeamish.

# 25th February 2004, 3:22 pm

Goliath. WebDAV client for OS X with SSL support.

# 24th February 2004, 9:57 pm / macos, webdav

The Black and White about Grey Tuesday (via) Lessig on Illegal Art.

# 24th February 2004, 6:33 pm

Why is this site grey today? Kottke on musical sampling without prior consent.

# 24th February 2004, 6:31 pm

Fixing CMS usability issues with JavaScript (via) Make Vignette suck less.

# 23rd February 2004, 10:16 pm / usability

ATM scam alert (via) Photos of the “skimmers” used to steal ATM card and pin details.

# 23rd February 2004, 7:47 pm

Feed Me. RSS feed link usability still sucks.

# 23rd February 2004, 7:10 pm