Simon Willison’s Weblog

Amazon’s not-really-sekrit 800 number. Useful to know

# 10th January 2004, 6:12 am

Tribune Co. Fires Baltimore Sun Editor. “The Tribune is a profit-oriented company, and higher profits are not always compatible with good journalism.”

# 8th January 2004, 4 am

How to make a documentary. Peter’s advice on filming a documentary with a consumer mini-DV camera

# 8th January 2004, 12:37 am

Python Cookbook : FSList (via) A fun alternative to os.path and friends—a list subclass for directory access

# 7th January 2004, 8:17 pm / python

ParseTime (via) A good simple example of a Python wrapper for a C function

# 7th January 2004, 8:15 pm

Paul Martin’s Blog (via) Canada’s prime minister has a blog—infrequently updated, no permalinks but it’s still a very promising precedent

# 7th January 2004, 4:14 am

Daring Fireball: A Big Garage. John Gruber thinks GarageBand demonstrates the essence of Apple’s target audience

# 6th January 2004, 10:31 pm / apple, john-gruber

Give online news stories a relative importance rank. Some really interesting comments

# 6th January 2004, 10:07 pm

MacWorld. Matt Haughey thinks they blew it as well.

# 6th January 2004, 9:03 pm

iPod mini. Todd thinks Apple blew it. I’m inclined to agree.

# 6th January 2004, 9 pm

But what does it actually DO? People who write marketing blurbs for websites should be re-educated with a two-by-four

# 6th January 2004, 5:41 pm

The Free Software Community After 20 Years: With great but incomplete success, what now? (via) Richard Stallman sings Sargent Pepper

# 6th January 2004, 5:24 am

How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web (via) Facets, facets, facets

# 6th January 2004, 4:17 am

Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated (via) And I still haven’t quite got them figured out :o/

# 6th January 2004, 3:27 am

Mailio—email with training wheels (via) Webmail for kids, with a parent controlled whitelist

# 6th January 2004, 3:26 am

The people have spoken... the bastards. The highly amusing tail of an online/phone poll gone wrong

# 6th January 2004, 3:08 am

CSS Fast Rollovers Without Preload—Updated (via) Now with a fix for an obscure IE bug

# 6th January 2004, 2:59 am

I’ll take Social Software for $1,000 please, Alex. (via) More on the pros and cons of social networking software

# 6th January 2004, 2:52 am

Non-link element hovering in MSIE. A good summary of the latest kick-IE-in-to-compliance Javascript technique

# 6th January 2004, 2:51 am

TagSoup (via) Forgiving HTML parser written in Java

# 6th January 2004, 2:50 am

digitalslr.org (via) Another excellent niche blog

# 6th January 2004, 2:48 am

AppScripting (via) The power of AppleScript with the less verbose syntax of Python

# 6th January 2004, 2:12 am / python, applescript

WiFi Speed Spray. You’ll be amazed!

# 5th January 2004, 5:20 pm

OmniWeb 5 Preview (via) Tabs with thumbnails look cool, but might take up too much space

# 3rd January 2004, 12:27 am

Entering CasualSpace... (via) Virtual spaces with iChat AV

# 2nd January 2004, 4:38 pm

Grandparenting will never be the same (via) The video phone is finally here

# 2nd January 2004, 4:36 pm

MozillaZine Review of the Year 2003. A tumultuous year

# 1st January 2004, 11:35 pm

The year that was. Craig Saila’s analysis of 2003

# 31st December 2003, 11:12 pm / craig-saila

10 ads America won’t see (via) Thank goodness then for the internet

# 31st December 2003, 10:50 pm

Making Patch Files (via) How to contribute a patch

# 31st December 2003, 8:45 pm