Simon Willison’s Weblog

Column Two: The quality of yours indexers matters. Metadata remains ridiculously hard to gather.

# 10th March 2004, 7:38 pm

Photo Matt : Code is Food. Why the Locker Gnome thing is upsetting.

# 10th March 2004, 7:34 pm

Semantic data extractor (via) Structured markup advocacy tool.

# 10th March 2004, 6:18 am

CouchSurfing. Stay on random people’s couches. Inspired.

# 9th March 2004, 7:27 am

Feedster at One Year. “With a little help from our friends”

# 9th March 2004, 7:25 am

Rounded Corners in CSS (via) Using :before and :after, so no show in IE.

# 8th March 2004, 8:01 pm

Joel on Software—Back to Basics. And oldie but still worth re-reading.

# 8th March 2004, 7:18 pm

Essential utility: “screen”. Multiple terminals in a single session.

# 8th March 2004, 5:01 pm

Jay-Z Construction Set (via) The logical conclusion of Grey Tuesday.

# 8th March 2004, 5 pm

A Transforming Experience for Content Management? (via) Good overview of XSLT 2.0.

# 8th March 2004, 4:56 pm / xslt

SharedID (via) Single sign-in system based on FOAF—but it isn’t decentralised.

# 8th March 2004, 4:54 pm

Know Your Enemy (via) A great series of essays about defending against script kiddies.

# 8th March 2004, 4:29 pm

Divmod.Org :: Nevow. a next-generation web application templating system

# 8th March 2004, 4:17 pm

Experience Google’s new look. Via a clever bookmarklet that changes your cookie.

# 8th March 2004, 3:45 pm

Fixing IE. I wax lyrical about IE7 on my SitePoint blog.

# 7th March 2004, 1:51 am

IE7: Intro. Multiple fixes for missing IE features using Javscript and CSS.

# 7th March 2004, 1:50 am

The Exorcist in 30 seconds (via) (and re-enacted by bunnies)

# 7th March 2004, 12:04 am

Where Is My Gay Apocalypse? (via) Over 3,500 gay marriages and, what, no hellfire? I was promised hellfire. And riots. What gives?

# 6th March 2004, 2:02 am

And the award for the best award... (via) An awards ceremony for award ceremonies. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

# 5th March 2004, 11:44 pm

DOH.NET (via) Oops.

# 5th March 2004, 10:48 pm

Unappetizing? (via) If there’s no such thing as bad publicity, the Spong Monkeys are about to take over the world.

# 5th March 2004, 9:35 pm / spongmonkeys

World Subways. Displayed on the same scale.

# 5th March 2004, 4:57 pm

Tcl for Web Nerds. TCL is the embedded scripting language for the open source AOLServer.

# 5th March 2004, 6:24 am

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