Simon Willison’s Weblog

How to manage smart people (via) Tips from an ex-Microsoftee

# 2nd February 2004, 4:28 pm

The PC G5 thing was a hoax. Thank goodness for that :)

# 30th January 2004, 11:19 pm

Microsoft Holds Off on Eolas—Related Changes To Windows and ExplorerInternet (via) Patent validity still being reviewed

# 30th January 2004, 9:43 pm

Ian Lloyd holding a wombat (via) I never knew they were so fat

# 30th January 2004, 8:35 pm

Accessible UK Train Timetable (via) Great use of screen scraping to fix broken websites

# 30th January 2004, 7:53 pm

Slouching toward Big Brother (via) Security is a trade-off

# 30th January 2004, 7:18 pm / bruce-schneier, security

IE Factor, Exemplified. Detailed explanation of an obscure IE border bug

# 30th January 2004, 7:16 pm

Election boxes easy to mess with (via) More on Diebold’s ludicrous security

# 30th January 2004, 7:11 pm / diebold, electronicvoting, security

Wired News: Flower Power Takes on Land Mines (via) Good science at work

# 30th January 2004, 7:10 pm

RSS native parsing in the next Firebird. Aggregators, aggregators, everywhere I look

# 30th January 2004, 6:59 pm

Bouncing Termsheets. Understanding venture capital

# 30th January 2004, 6:17 pm

craigblog. Craig from craigslist blogs

# 30th January 2004, 5 pm

Custom URLParser for Webware. Our new in-house CMS does something similar

# 30th January 2004, 4:57 pm

Hutton—a wise old bird? (via) Hutton conspiracy theories

# 30th January 2004, 4:39 pm

Greylisting (via) Interesting short term approach to email spam

# 30th January 2004, 8:25 am

Greg Dyke’s resignation email. This sucks

# 29th January 2004, 10:36 pm

Unison—Reinventing the Mac OS X Usenet newsreader! Usenet is the new Kazaa

# 29th January 2004, 10:24 pm

What’s new in Mozilla Firebird 0.8. Coming soon

# 29th January 2004, 9:41 pm / mozilla

’Warspying’ San Francisco (via) War driving for wireless video cameras

# 29th January 2004, 9:18 pm

Swedish Campground. So that’s where the funny symbol on the command key came from

# 29th January 2004, 7:28 am

Solving and creating captchas with free porn. More spammer ingenuity

# 28th January 2004, 8:37 am / captchas, spammers

How I PC’d an Apple G5. The humanity!

# 28th January 2004, 8:23 am

A Call for the Complete Elimination of Joke Haiku Production on the Internet (via) Where’s my other sock? / It disappeared in the wash / How did that happen?

# 28th January 2004, 7:24 am

The History of the DeCSS Haiku (via) Fascinating

# 28th January 2004, 6:56 am

Allowing innovation in obscure parts of specifications. Hixie remains the master of the obscure

# 28th January 2004, 6:40 am

Linus Torvalds: SCO Is “Just Too Wrong” (via) “There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they’d still be wrong.”

# 28th January 2004, 4:57 am / linus-torvalds

MusicXML Definition (via) Royalty free XML sheet music standard

# 28th January 2004, 3:32 am

Bender Soundboard. Almost as much fun as Arnie

# 27th January 2004, 9:09 pm

The Making of OK/Cancel Archives (via) Collaboration across time zones

# 27th January 2004, 8:22 pm

Apple UK pricing insanity. I saved over 1000 pounds thanks to a student discount

# 27th January 2004, 6:35 pm