Simon Willison’s Weblog

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

Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories (via) Anecdotes about the development of Apple’s original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it.

# 26th January 2004, 3:24 pm

XML.com: Lightweight XML Search Servers [Jan. 21, 2004] (via) More fun with Python and libxml2

# 26th January 2004, 2:51 pm / libxml2, python, xml

Joel on Software—Getting Your Resume Read. Advice you can’t afford to miss

# 26th January 2004, 2:33 pm

Pwyky (A Python Wiki) (via) A neat little wiki in a single CGI file

# 26th January 2004, 7:08 am / cgi

Ned Batchelder: handyxml. Yet another XML object wrapper for Python, this time with full DOM method support included

# 26th January 2004, 2:52 am / ned-batchelder, python, xml

cool-2b-real hacked? “Stranger ownZ you”

# 26th January 2004, 2:45 am

An Introduction to the Twisted Networking Framework [Jan. 15, 2004] (via) Yet Another Twisted Article

# 23rd January 2004, 8:40 pm