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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: university</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/university.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-03-11T13:52:27+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Get our full university data</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/11/university/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-03-11T13:52:27+00:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T13:52:27+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/11/university/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/mar/10/universityguide"&gt;Get our full university data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
“The Guardian’s university rankings are the most visited part of Education Guardian”—and now they’re available as a spreadsheet.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datastore"&gt;datastore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian"&gt;guardian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/leaguetables"&gt;leaguetables&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openplatform"&gt;openplatform&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/university"&gt;university&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="datastore"/><category term="guardian"/><category term="leaguetables"/><category term="openplatform"/><category term="university"/></entry><entry><title>A Firefox observation</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2005/Apr/28/firefox/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2005-04-28T17:52:02+00:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T17:52:02+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2005/Apr/28/firefox/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;p&gt;There are (to my knowledge) around 80 people on my undergraduate computer science course. Of those 80, I know of at least &lt;del&gt;four&lt;/del&gt;&lt;ins&gt;five&lt;/ins&gt; who's final year project involves writing a Firefox extension of some sort. That's 1 in &lt;del&gt;20&lt;/del&gt;&lt;ins&gt;16&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the &lt;a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/fifty.html" title="Firefox: Blazing a Trail to 50,000,000"&gt;race to fifty million downloads&lt;/a&gt; continues. Check out the source code for the counter on that page for some smart use of Ajax.&lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/extensions"&gt;extensions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox"&gt;firefox&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/university"&gt;university&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    

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