Simon Willison’s Weblog

Hypocrisy: RDF and the Atom API. Russell really doesn’t like PUT and DELETE.

# 19th February 2004, 3:58 am / atom

Electrolite: Upholding standards. (via) Judge denies court order over rogue semicolon.

# 18th February 2004, 11:16 pm

Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine (via) Did you know Yahoo! owns both AltaVista and AllTheWeb?

# 18th February 2004, 9:49 pm

Largest Living Thing Is a 2,200 Acre Fungus in Oregon. 2,000 years old and mostly harmless.

# 18th February 2004, 9:24 pm

AT&T Trips Up SCO. Things are getting a lot trickier for Darl and chums.

# 18th February 2004, 6:47 pm

Killer rabbit 404. Creative ;)

# 18th February 2004, 6:32 pm

New PHP releases (via) Joey reports on PHP 4.3.5 RC 2 and PHP 5.0 Beta 4

# 18th February 2004, 3:42 am / php, php5

Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks (via) Cory’s notes from Danny O’Brien’s Etcon session.

# 18th February 2004, 3:41 am

What’s New in Python 2.4. An early look at Python 2.4’s new proposed features.

# 17th February 2004, 2:21 am

EtherPEG (via) Watch GIFs and JPEGs loaded on your local network

# 17th February 2004, 2:10 am

WaveBlog. So that’s what Russell’s been up to...

# 16th February 2004, 11:44 pm

document.getElementsByWhatever() (via) Like getElementsBySelector() but... different.

# 12th February 2004, 11:10 pm

Webmonkey R.I.P. The site responsible for my unofficial job title is no more.

# 12th February 2004, 4:41 pm

Photoshop a Google logo for a ficticious holiday (via) Fark fun.

# 12th February 2004, 3:50 pm

foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.swf (via) This one left me speechless.

# 12th February 2004, 4:14 am

Scary-cool: Decompression bombs. How to crash a mail scanner with a 7 KB attachment.

# 12th February 2004, 3:35 am

Compilers. Not, it turns out, a difficult thing. Dan says they’re easy. But then he did write most of Parrot...

# 11th February 2004, 6:38 am

Optimizing Mozilla Firebird. Hacking prefs.js

# 11th February 2004, 6:10 am / mozilla

Rands In Repose: Agenda Detection (via) An almost painfully cynical guide to getting out of meetings as soon as possible.

# 11th February 2004, 3:05 am

AskTog: Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line (via) Usability advice for e-commerce sites.

# 11th February 2004, 1:28 am

The Fishbowl: Pronunciation of SQL. Because they’re cute.

# 10th February 2004, 10:08 pm

Lawrence.com blogging gem. “... I just decked him and broke his nose.”

# 10th February 2004, 9:38 pm / blogging

Clueless office workers help spread computer viruses (via) “55% of those quizzed base their passwords on people’s names”

# 10th February 2004, 7:52 pm

World’s First HCI Rap: “We Got It”. HCI hip-hop from OK/Cancel. Sweet Jesus no!

# 10th February 2004, 7:48 pm

Why Questions go Unanswered (via) "I’m a lazy asshole and I can’t be bothered to learn to program myself, but I know if I post here you’ll give me something for free.’’

# 10th February 2004, 7:47 pm

NanoBlogger. A blogging system written in bash.

# 10th February 2004, 7:45 pm

Flagging issues on craigslist (via) Moderation in a high traffic environment.

# 10th February 2004, 7:44 pm / craigslist, moderation

Seven Steps to Better Presentationss (via) Advice from Jeffrey Veen

# 10th February 2004, 7:34 pm

More unfortunate PageRank. I’m third on Google for “hotmail inbox”

# 10th February 2004, 7:13 pm

Internet erosion of TV viewing habits deepens (via) Of the 11.8 hours the average Internet user spends online weekly, more than half is coming from TV viewing and almost none from sleep or socialization

# 10th February 2004, 5:57 pm