Simon Willison’s Weblog

Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail. WTF!? It’s not even April 1st yet.

# 30th March 2004, 8:05 am

Dogging Craze Has Brits in Heat. I leave the country for four months and it turns in to one big orgy.

# 30th March 2004, 8:04 am

Ian Lloyd’s SXSW photos (via) Cue music from Reservoir Dogs.

# 30th March 2004, 5:59 am

James Carville. I saw him today in a local restaurant.

# 29th March 2004, 8:07 pm

Why Do Java Developers Like to Make Things So Hard? (via) Entertaining rant about complexity in APIs.

# 29th March 2004, 5:49 pm

PHP 4.3.5. Lots and lots of bug fixes.

# 29th March 2004, 5:45 pm / php

Phishing attacks hook more and more victims. “...between 1 percent and 5 percent of recipients responded to recent attacks...”—like shooting phish in a barrel.

# 29th March 2004, 5:35 pm

Revised image replacement (via) Dave Shea collates all of the image replacement techniques in one spot.

# 29th March 2004, 5:27 pm

Vow of Silence. Inspirational.

# 29th March 2004, 9:13 am

Desktop Manager for OS X (via) Virtual desktops for Panther.

# 29th March 2004, 6:08 am

Memories Of An Internet Less Cluttered With Crap (via) “Every Blogspot site has had my nuts on it.”

# 29th March 2004, 5:56 am

Macworld: Panther Secrets Declassified (via) A whole bunch of useful Panther tricks.

# 28th March 2004, 10 pm

Me as a Ninja. I guess I must have made a good impression :)

# 28th March 2004, 6:38 am

Contact Information (Ftrain.com). This made me smile.

# 27th March 2004, 10:26 pm

“It’s All Bad News” (via) The situation in Iraq, from a freelance reporter living there since April 2003.

# 27th March 2004, 9:27 pm

HTTP 101. What everyone should know about HTTP.

# 27th March 2004, 1:23 am

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (via) On of those problems you really want to be able to ignore.

# 27th March 2004, 1:22 am

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (via) Debugging and social skills in the same document.

# 27th March 2004, 1:21 am

Turning the Tide. Noam Chomsky has a blog!

# 26th March 2004, 5:02 am

TrailBlazer (via) Finally a browser that does something innovative with the history feature.

# 26th March 2004, 2:04 am

Panther, Python, and CoreGraphics (via) I didn’t realise Apple shipped special custom Python modules with OS X.

# 26th March 2004, 1:57 am / python

This site uses “Fly-out” menus to increase usability. (via) The irony of this statement appearing on the “how to use our navigation” page is delicious.

# 26th March 2004, 1:49 am / usability

Kansas Legislature: Senate defeats gay marriage ban. Maybe Kansas isn’t so backwards after all.

# 26th March 2004, 1:11 am

PyCon 2004 SubEthaEdit notes (via) I couldn’t get to PyCon this year but the notes are excellent.

# 26th March 2004, 12:59 am

Template engines:- PHP’s biggest joke. 50 now and counting.

# 25th March 2004, 7:42 pm / php

Dijkstra paper in his own handwriting. “Why American Computing Science Seems Incurable”

# 25th March 2004, 7:41 pm

iwaskissedbyminjung.org Club (via) Bah, looks like I missed out on a great closing party.

# 24th March 2004, 11:31 pm

I’ve been exposed. I’m still amazed that OS X lets me get away with this kind of flagrant abuse.

# 24th March 2004, 4:27 pm

Unicode: Dividing the world One Character, and Between One and Six Bytes, At A Time. (via) If you thought you had problems with unicode, you aint seen nothing yet!

# 24th March 2004, 6:59 am

xhtmloutlines—Technorati Developers Site (via) OPML alternative built on top of XHTML.

# 24th March 2004, 6:54 am / microformats, opml, technorati, xhtml