February 2005
Feb. 8, 2005
Nasty Firefox vulnerability and Double Standards. In which I am accused of hypocrisy (response in the comments).
Google Maps (via) Very slick, but sadly non functional for Safari uses.
Google Blog: Get the picture. Image search results now sometimes appear along side regular searches.
Secure wireless email on Mac OS X. Doug Bowman’s tutorial on SSH Tunnel Manager and wireless security.
Maps released. Google Maps Safari support is being worked on.
IDN and homographs spoofing (via) Good coverage of the related specs.
Why Craigslist Works, by Craig. A ChangeThis manifesto.
Google Maps and XSL
I’ll probably write more on this later, but it seems that Google Maps is using XSL. I spotted it loading the following pages while sniffing its activity with LiveHTTPHeaders:
[... 174 words]UK Diaries I: Hail Britannia. Britain from an American’s point of view.
Outsourcing Torture. This left me sick to my stomach.
Feb. 9, 2005
Excel is to Business People as the Text Editor is to Geeks. Strange but true; we were talking about this the other night.
Blog baiting. Jeremy Dunck on why AdWord whoring topical blogs will end in tears.
Gannon Quits After Blogger Inquiry (via) The left wing blogosphere finally have a scandal to call their own.
Feb. 10, 2005
South America warms to Open Source. Great summary of open source adoption in that part of the world.
Lawrence Lessig on the West Wing. Rather strange. Leaves you wondering where he left his flux capacitator.
DoubleCommand (via) A uControl alternative that works with 10.3.8.
Feb. 11, 2005
Here Is The News You May Have Missed. The Independent’s series of excellent front pages continues.
Temporary anethetics (via) Comic strips by Don Hertzfeldt. File under sick, twisted and inspired.
Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets (via) Cool tricks with Google Maps and bookmarklets.
Feb. 12, 2005
Upgrading MySQL 4.0 to 4.1 (via) Some scary differences; PostgreSQL seems to be much better at this kind of thing.
Feb. 13, 2005
iPod Launcher. I’m using this to backup my photo library whenever I plug in my iPod.
Steam. Nice OS X application for making the most out of the BBC’s internet radio streams.
Jython road map. On the new Jython wiki.
Feb. 14, 2005
London web geek meetup photos. My pictures on Flickr.
del.icio.us/popular with sparklines (via) Clever use of sparklines to show popularity over time.
Pre-SXSW meet. Stuart’s writeup of Saturday.
How Do You Make Them Understand? Most organisations fail to understand effective web publishing.
Broadcatching. What you get when you cross podcasting with BitTorrent.
Orbitz add a moronic linking policy (via) I can’t believe lawyers still try and pull this kind of rubbish.
WriteToThem.com. The new FaxYourMP, now with more than just MPs.