Simon Willison’s Weblog

Netcat 1.10 Readme. Ultra useful command-line networking tool

# 21st January 2004, 11:32 pm

Beware of Strangers. Neat anti-comment spam idea: watch out for IP addresses that have never visted your site before

# 21st January 2004, 9:41 pm

non-consensual http user tracking using caches. Interesting security issue involving HTTP caching headers

# 20th January 2004, 10:37 pm / caching, privacy, security

New Technorati Infrastructure beta test! (via) It certainly feels faster

# 20th January 2004, 10:36 pm / scaling, technorati

64 bit immediates in Python. Low level language geekery

# 20th January 2004, 10:35 pm

Graphics from the command line (via) Tutorial for ImageMagick’s command line tools

# 20th January 2004, 10:31 pm

Anil Dash: Microsoft *nix. What if Microsoft shipped “Linux for Windows”?

# 19th January 2004, 11:06 pm / anil-dash

Yahoo! Research Labs (via) I wonder where they got this idea from...

# 19th January 2004, 8:31 pm

Goatse.cx taken offline. I used to use it to scare people out of my room at Uni when I wanted to geek in solitude

# 17th January 2004, 4:30 am

Widescreen fun. Taking advantage of wide screen monitors for web browsing

# 16th January 2004, 2:09 am

Web Services? What has the industry been smoking? Great rant

# 16th January 2004, 2:07 am

Faux Columns. A useful CSS trick for faking equal length columns

# 16th January 2004, 2:07 am

BLEEP—Digital Downloads from Warp Records. Pay for downloads, no DRM. Excellent.

# 16th January 2004, 2:05 am

Keep It Simple: The Behavior Layer. PPK on best practises for JavaScript

# 16th January 2004, 2:05 am

Domain registrars sued over URL patent. More patent insanity—and it looks like my site infringes this one

# 16th January 2004, 12:45 am

Colored boxes. Another great CSS tutorial from Russ Weakley

# 15th January 2004, 5:12 am

UsingAssertionsEffectively—PythonInfo Wiki. The PythonInfo Wiki is well worth exploring

# 13th January 2004, 9:06 pm

Torture by proxy / How immigration threw a traveler to the wolves (via) The most disturbing thing I’ve read in a long time

# 13th January 2004, 7:45 am

1 TeraByte FireWire drive from LaCie (via) In a 5.25" form factor. I want.

# 13th January 2004, 7:40 am

An ASP version of time_since. Nat’s function in ASP, with commentary

# 13th January 2004, 4:42 am

ongoing—Mac OS X. Collected OS X tips from Tim Bray

# 13th January 2004, 1:17 am / tim-bray

Tips For New Switchers (via) I wish I’d read this before I’d set up my Mac

# 10th January 2004, 9:49 pm

Gollum iPod T-shirts (via) I guess I’d have to get an iPod first...

# 10th January 2004, 9:40 pm

ColorSync Profiles (via) More crazy Mac prettiness

# 10th January 2004, 7:38 am

TiVo-to-go inherently broken? A good reponse to Cory’s “dinosaur industry” rant

# 10th January 2004, 7:29 am

Microsoft ships GPL’d software (via) Who’d a thunk it?

# 10th January 2004, 7:26 am

Blog as Contact Manager. Managing contacts with a weblog and CVS

# 10th January 2004, 6:19 am

Linux on the WRT54G (via) Install Linux on your LinkSys Wireless router

# 10th January 2004, 6:18 am

uControl. Make your PowerBook’s keyboard behave

# 10th January 2004, 6:16 am

Tongue mounted vibrators (via) I kid you not

# 10th January 2004, 6:14 am