Simon Willison’s Weblog

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

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