Simon Willison’s Weblog

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

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