Simon Willison’s Weblog

Brighton geek venues. Nat’s latest project: a neat Google Maps mashup listing venues for geek events in Brighton, managed using Google MyMaps to edit a KML file.

# 1:38 am / brighton, geek, google, google-maps, googlemymaps, kml, mashup, mymaps, natalie-downe

Prototype 1.6.0 release candidate. Prototype gets a long-needed update to its Event API, and some interesting new Function.prototype extensions.

# 8:49 am / events, javascript, prototype

Operation Aborted. Another fantastically obscure IE bug: appending new elements to the HEAD element breaks if a BASE tag is present.

# 11:21 am / bugs, ie, internet-explorer, javascript, operationaborted, shauninman

mobileterminal (via) The iPhone now has a GUI terminal application, which can run a comand-line SSH client. Now I really want one.

# 2:54 pm / apple, iphone, jacob-kaplan-moss, mobileterminal

Grab them eyeballs! Any cred at all! Excellent argument for why large OpenID consumers shouldn’t be worried that other large providers will turn evil and hold their users hostage. What counts is the account, not the credential.

# 9:16 pm / eyeballs, kimcameron, openid

Why FireFox is Blocked. Idiotic campaign by site owners who don’t like AdBlock Plus. If you block Firefox we won’t link to your site, so you’ll miss out on PageRank, so you’ll miss out on traffic, so you’ll miss out on money.

# 11:30 pm / adblockplus, firefox, idiotic