Simon Willison’s Weblog

Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages (via) Great for unicode testing. 11:14 am

hAccessibility. The use of the abbr element in hCalendar causes screen readers to read out an incomprehensible number instead of a date. 1:07 pm

XTech 2007 Registration. Deadline for online registrations is 2nd May. It looks like it’ll be a really good conference this year (disclaimer: I’m speaking). 4:05 pm

I finally get REST. Wow. “The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs.” 4:17 pm

Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr). 8:41 pm