External Links

You can't get there from here. Well, not unless you click the links below.

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• The London News Review

  Always something interesting to browse through.

• Refactoring code in Perl

  A useful guide for something that I do quite a bit.

• Reclaiming Javascript

  Javascript for programmers, and why it's not just a noddy language. Worthwhile.

• ZVON.org

  Calls itself "The Guide to the XML Galaxy". A superb resource for all aspects of XML, with some great guides, tutorials and references. Highly recommended.

• BritishPathe.com

  Amazing collection of archive news photographs and stills dating back over 100 years.

• Astronomy Picture of the Day (UK Mirror)

  Often beautiful, always fascinating, a new image every day from NASA's enormous archive.

• History of the London Tube Maps

  Great for tube geeks (like me!)

• Going Underground

  Everything you ever wanted to know about the tube but were afraid to ask.

• GrubStreet

  A London wiki. Nice.

• My Fotopic Galleries

  Further to the link below, I will in future be storing my images on Fotopic rather than Webshots.

• My Webshots Albums

  Someone was recently asking me if I had any pictures, and it occurred to me that I've bunged a load of them onto Webshots. So here they are.

• Project Gutenberg

  Free and legal books and texts. Hundreds of them. Thousands of them! Excellent.

• SchNEWS

  Brighton Rocks :-)

• Truth Out

  News from a non-corporate point of view.

• Bloggerheads

  Full of devious, cunning, humorous, and just plain excellent ways at causing disruption and civil disobedience. Spot on!

• Web Pages near to me

  From geourl.org comes a list of websites whose owners' real-world location is within 120 miles of mine.

• AlterNet

  A very well put together site for general news reporting and intelligent comment, mostly American but with a strong left-of-centre slant. There's some great articles on there.

• Indymedia UK

  Vital news about activism and protests from round the country, free from editorial or political bias and interference. Part of the international Indymedia network.

• Blogs

  I'm not a blogger, but every so often I come across some blogs which seem to be on the same wavelength as me, or which I really enjoy reading. So without further ado, here are some blogs that I like (in no particular order):

  • Route 79
  • cloud23.net
  • davblog
  • Pepys Diary
  • Abraxas
  • Bloggerheads
  • The Road to Surfdom
  • New Word Order
  • A Voyage to Arcturus
  • Butterfly Frontier
  • Stuart Hughes
  • Blatant Optimism
  • The UK Today

  There's also a nice generic link to British blogs which I find quite useful when just randomly browsing the web.

• A very useful page about driving in the UK for foreigners. It's mostly aimed at Americans but has some useful definitions.

• Debian GNU/Linux

  After many many years of happily using Slackware (link below) I've become a convert to the Debian distribution. One day I might even write up the story explaining why I changed my mind.

• Slackware Linux

  A GNU/Linux distribution for the more discerning hacker!

• Stop Esso

  As Ben Elton once said, "A little bit of politics". Esso (known outside Europe as Exxon) are amongst the biggest culprits on the planet when it comes to disregard for the environment. Buy your fuel elsewhere.

• Pictures of the world's most powerful computers

  Exactly what you'd imagine it to be.

• skyscrapers.com

  Far more interesting than you'd expect, with all kinds of pictures, facts, and statistics about tall buildings and cities the world over.

• Google Answers

  I'm a researcher for them.

• Searching and Researching Resources

  Lots of useful links for looking things up and finding stuff out on the internet. Particularly useful for those who do a lot of research.