Simon Willison’s Weblog

Propositioned through my blog. Mentioning “sex” in an entry title can have unintended consequences

# 31st December 2003, 5:23 pm

t610 bluetooth = remote control. Controlling an iBook via Bluetooth

# 31st December 2003, 4:21 pm

Funny Things I Have Said To “Famous Bloggers”... (via) ...That The “Famous Bloggers” Did Not Find Funny At All

# 31st December 2003, 5:11 am

Things “Famous Bloggers” Have Actually Said To Me, Directly (via) This guy knows everyone ;)

# 31st December 2003, 5:10 am

Web’s inventor gets a knighthood (via) Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

# 31st December 2003, 3:24 am / tim-berners-lee

X vs. XP: Scriptability (via) I can’t wait to get my teeth in to AppleScript

# 30th December 2003, 7:08 pm / applescript

One-page C# intro (via) If you know Java, this shouldn’t take too long

# 29th December 2003, 11:50 pm

Windows XP Box (via) A Win XP box in a Win XP box

# 29th December 2003, 6:21 pm

Entries in Life: Nice Trojan. Another way of tricking people in to executing attachments

# 29th December 2003, 5:55 pm

Learning Python, 2nd Edition (via) It’s finally finished

# 29th December 2003, 2:56 pm

Newspapers US and Worldwide (via) That’s a lot of online news

# 29th December 2003, 2:52 pm

this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private. Great idea

# 29th December 2003, 2:46 pm

Donate to Wikipedia (via) Now this is a cause worth supporting

# 29th December 2003, 2:40 pm / wikipedia

Is planned obsolescence socially responsible? (via) All in the name of strengthening the economy

# 29th December 2003, 2:32 pm

DocIndexer (via) Full text search indexing for Windows files, powered by Lupy

# 24th December 2003, 12:54 am

Muppet character list. The hecklers are called Statler and Waldorf

# 23rd December 2003, 12:48 am

Antichristmas. Great Christmas joke

# 22nd December 2003, 4:01 am

The WGET and CURL blog. This guy has no social conscience, at least when it comes to other people’s bandwidth

# 22nd December 2003, 3:55 am

Journalistic jargon (via) Seeing as I work for a newspaper now, this site is indispensable

# 21st December 2003, 11:04 pm / journalism

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (via) Hiring tips from Joel back in 2000

# 21st December 2003, 8:35 pm

Execute Javascript every time any page loads. XUL technique for building interesting browser extensions

# 21st December 2003, 3:53 am

Experiments with wide images in a variable width column. The most useful thing to come out of the recent spate of fixed vs liquid

# 21st December 2003, 3:51 am

Donate to the PSF! Support Python as well.

# 20th December 2003, 10:02 pm / python, psf

XML in PHP5 (via) An in-depth look into advanced XML features

# 20th December 2003, 9:56 pm / php, php5, xml

Donate to the Mozilla Foundation. I’m waiting until after Christmas to see if I can afford $50 for the T-Shirt option.

# 20th December 2003, 9:55 pm / mozilla

SourceForge.net: Make A Donation. I tipped them a few bucks this year.

# 20th December 2003, 9:54 pm

Anatomy of a linkblog. Keith’s design process for building his linkblog

# 20th December 2003, 9:53 pm

Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary (via) Unbelievable: 5 convicted felons at Diebold, one a programmer convicted of falsifying records

# 20th December 2003, 12:37 am

“Not for use until guilty verdict” (via) The impartial BBC

# 19th December 2003, 6:22 pm

Restoration Software (via) Digitally restoring films with Macs

# 19th December 2003, 4:44 pm