Simon Willison’s Weblog

Why BitTorrent is a game-changer (via) Digital video is the killer app

# 28th November 2003, 4:23 pm

The rootkit recently found on debian.org. I won’t pretend to understand the C code, but it’s cute that it’s released under the GPL

# 28th November 2003, 5:54 am

Can Google Grow Up? (via) It’s tough at the top, and it’s going to get tougher

# 27th November 2003, 5:34 pm

Javascript Compression (via) Nearly halves the size of getElementBySelector.js

# 27th November 2003, 4:49 pm

Minor spam victory. I’ve deleted the spam comments now but they were pretty amusing

# 27th November 2003, 4:46 pm

Google vs. Evil (via) “Don’t be evil”

# 27th November 2003, 4:24 pm

Dotcom Memories (via) It’s all about the M&Ms

# 27th November 2003, 3:42 pm

Font Size: No Happy Medium. Sometimes I just wish for ignorance

# 27th November 2003, 1:35 am

vi Complete Key Binding List (via) Very useful

# 27th November 2003, 1:24 am

The rsync algorithm. The glorious technical details

# 27th November 2003, 1:03 am

Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync. Great Rsync tutorial

# 26th November 2003, 8:18 pm

Tears for Istanbul. I wish I could write like this

# 26th November 2003, 8:10 pm

Quake done Quick. Quake in 12 minutes 23 seconds

# 26th November 2003, 8:08 pm

Super Mario Brothers 3... in 11 minutes. Wow. Reminds me of Quake Done Quick.

# 26th November 2003, 8:07 pm

The End of RSS (via) Even with caching, RSS simply doesn’t scale

# 26th November 2003, 4:58 pm

How to freeze Python classes (via) Fun with __setattr__

# 26th November 2003, 4:45 pm

MS-Word is NOT a document exchange format (via) Don’t lock in others

# 26th November 2003, 4:14 pm

OS recommendations for ATMs. Apparently Windows XP is an “open platform”.

# 26th November 2003, 5:48 am

Diebold ATMs hit by Nachi Worm. Fascinating anonymous comment on /. about cracking ATMs

# 26th November 2003, 5:28 am

XML-RPC Progress. I’ll try to blog this properly tomorrow

# 26th November 2003, 5:02 am / xml-rpc

Weihnachtsmann Weitwurf. I can’t seem to beat 350.4

# 26th November 2003, 2:54 am

cleaning up html snippets. Another way of fixing dubious HTML with Python

# 26th November 2003, 2:44 am

DB_File. Perl5 access to Berkeley DB

# 26th November 2003, 2:38 am

Python Bindings for BerkeleyDB 3.x. More Berkeley DB goodness

# 26th November 2003, 2:38 am

Creating an SVG Wiki (via) If only the Mozilla SVG project would produce the goods

# 26th November 2003, 1:02 am / svg

XHTML and Accessibility in ASP.NET Whidbey (via) A definite improvement, but __VIEWSTATE still gives me the willies

# 25th November 2003, 11:13 pm / accessibility, xhtml

Unix “find” command mini-tutorial. The most useful thing I’ve learnt all week

# 25th November 2003, 9:11 pm

Colour tools. A roundup of tools that help create colour schemes.

# 25th November 2003, 7:39 pm

How Regexes Work (via) They’re just simplified syntax for constructing a state machine

# 25th November 2003, 12:27 am

Slashdot trolling phenomena. Natalie Portman, naked and petrified with hot grits

# 24th November 2003, 8:54 pm / slashdot