Simon Willison’s Weblog

Bravo l’artiste (via) Ruper Murdoch, reviewed.

# 10th February 2004, 1:15 am

AlltheWeb.com: URL Investigator (via) Useful tool.

# 9th February 2004, 11:09 pm

That’s nothing, here they call fruit salad ’Macedonia’. ’Bosnia’ slang explained.

# 9th February 2004, 10:09 pm

Hacking Friendster, Part I (via) Cross site scripting attacks in social networks

# 6th February 2004, 8:22 pm

Firebird Spell Checker. Slightly convoluted install procedure, but it’s a start.

# 6th February 2004, 8:04 pm

Popen5: useful! Obviously 4 popen functions isn’t enough.

# 6th February 2004, 5:23 pm

Blair may blog the next election (via) Unfortunately, spin and blogging just don’t mix.

# 6th February 2004, 4:10 pm / blogging

Marvin Walks (via) Video footage of the prototype Marvin suit for Hitch-Hikers the movie

# 6th February 2004, 3:58 pm

Basecamp. New hosted project management solution from 37signals

# 6th February 2004, 3:11 am

PHP Community Site (Coming Soon) (via) Still shaping up; volunteers welcome

# 6th February 2004, 2:29 am

Electoral Services (via) It turns out UK secret ballots aren’t so secret after all

# 6th February 2004, 1:52 am

London Slang. Because my co-workers didn’t know what “taking the mick” meant

# 5th February 2004, 9:23 pm

Using encryption and digital signatures in Mail (via) I’m still considering switching to Mail.app from Thunderbird

# 5th February 2004, 6:27 am

Apple—Trailers—Boundin. Pixar’s latest, with dancing gophers!

# 5th February 2004, 2:27 am

Google Guide (via) Great for friends and relatives who need to improve their search skills

# 4th February 2004, 11:11 pm

Eastern Standard Tribe. Cory has a new novel out. I think I’m actually going to buy this one.

# 4th February 2004, 10:46 pm

Download a RealPlayer version that doesn’t suck (via) The BBC link to a special version of the player, sans spyware and other gristle

# 4th February 2004, 7:50 pm

The myth of RSS compatibility [dive into mark]. Sometimes I think Mark’s raison d etre is to upset Dave Winer

# 4th February 2004, 7:45 pm / dave-winer, mark-pilgrim, rss

Mooncalf: Thuffering Thuccotash! Andy redesigns, in a pleasing shade of green

# 4th February 2004, 5:21 pm

ACCU Conference 2004. UK conference with a Python track

# 4th February 2004, 5:18 pm

Christians boycott Amazon for selling smutty books published by Christian publisher and sold in Christian Bookstores. Tony Bowden ran the The Jack Chick WWW Archive! in a former life

# 4th February 2004, 5:17 pm

Stalking the wild PVR... Sam Ruby’s experiences with Debian and MythTV

# 4th February 2004, 4:57 pm

Magnatune, an Open Music Experiment (via) “We’re not evil” makes good business sense

# 4th February 2004, 1:20 am

Ned Batchelder: Showing C header structure. Using Python to maked other languages less painful

# 4th February 2004, 1:19 am / c, ned-batchelder, python

Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated. Yeah right...

# 3rd February 2004, 5:55 am

Macintosh Info. Ted Leung’s tips for OS X

# 3rd February 2004, 5:54 am

Thesaurus Protocol (via) Query thesauri with XML and HTTP

# 3rd February 2004, 5:53 am

Browser Support 2004. Dave Shea’s supported browsers

# 2nd February 2004, 8:18 pm

Writing comedy for the BBC (via) Tips from the beeb

# 2nd February 2004, 5:36 pm / bbc, comedy

RSS native parsing NOT in the next Firebird. It was a misunderstanding

# 2nd February 2004, 5:13 pm