Simon Willison just announced that he's moving to the United States to join Adrian Holovaty as a Web developer for World Online's KUSports.com, LJWorld.com, and Lawrence.com. Who would have thought the same small Web division of a newspaper for a town of barely 80,000, Lawrence, Kansas, would be home to two of the most recognized developers in the industry? Congratulations are obviously in order.
In related news, Adrian was recently interviewed at zlog. Also, apologies for having just used the phrase "the industry."
Update: We'd also like to point out, given all this talk about the X-Philes, that Simon is serving his site with the correct MIME type (application/xhtml+xml) to browsers that support it, and that it appears his archive and individual entry pages, as well as his home page, validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Keeping pages valid will be easier for him -- the rest of us, too -- with the help of Jesse Ruderman's XML well-formedness bookmarlet, which Simon has linked to. This bookmarklet is even more useful now that we're serving our site as 'application/xhtml+xml,' since Mozilla will display only an error in place of documents that are not well-formed.