Simon Willison’s Weblog

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 / paul-ford

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

Flowers for Al and Don (via) Send flowers to gay couples waiting in line to get married in SF.

# 20th February 2004, 11:54 pm

Big and Bad (via) Why SUV safety is a myth.

# 20th February 2004, 7:17 pm

WackyCam. Play with your iSight.

# 20th February 2004, 7:17 pm

Perl Gets Extreme Makeover. Surprisingly informative overview of Perl 6 from Yahoo! News.

# 20th February 2004, 4:17 am

Om Malik on Broadband: pMachine is now Expression Engine. Interesting interview with the man behind pMachine and Expression Engine.

# 20th February 2004, 3:47 am

Codeville (via) Not content with revolutionising file distribution, Bram “BitTorrent” Cohen has his sights set on CVS.

# 20th February 2004, 3:38 am / bram-cohen

Wired News: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Porn (via) In which Larry Flynt discusses the Patriot Act.

# 20th February 2004, 2:28 am