Links

Here are a collection of links that I find useful, and I hope others will too:

Computers

• http://slashdot.org :: Technology news site
• http://www.theregister.co.uk :: UK focused technology news
• http://www.debian.org :: The linux distribution I use
• http://irssi.org :: nice text based irc client which I use in conjunction with http://www.bitlbee.org for accessing MSN via irc

Public Transport

• http://www.natrail.ukfsn.org/ :: Accessible National Rail Enquiries
• http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en :: Deutsche Bahn's site is very good at finding good routes for UK trains
• http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/frameset.asp?location=ldb :: UK Railway Live Departure Boards
• http://www.arriva.co.uk :: Arriva, operator of the majority of buses in Chester
• http://www.firstgroup.com :: Operator of the rest of the buses in Chester

Oxford

• http://www.ox.compsoc.net/oxfordguide :: The OpenGuide to Oxford, a collaborative guide to Oxford
• http://www.ox.compsoc.net :: The Oxford University Computer Society

Manchester

Chester

• http://chesterguide.org.uk :: The OpenGuide to Chester

Other things I'm involved with

• http://www.johnwesleysociety.org.uk :: The John Wesley Society in Oxford
• http://www.wesleymem.org.uk :: Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford
• http://www.openguides.org :: the OpenGuides project, developing collaborative city guides
• http://www.chesterguide.org.uk :: the OpenGuide to Chester, run by me

Friends, aquatiences, people

People from school

• http://www.philpac.com :: Philip Peartree

Oxford People

• http://www.sleepyewe.co.uk :: the home of the Kim and Andy comic
• http://www.draconian.co.uk :: Andy Holding's web page
• http://www.photonhunter.co.uk/~art/ :: Art's web site
• http://www.photonhunter.co.uk/~saffie/ :: Saffie's web site
• http://the.earth.li/~tfm/ :: Tristam's Web Site
• http://www.earth.li/~ganesh/ :: Ganesh's web site
• http://eco.li/ :: Dan Kolb's web site, who kindly allows me to host my website on his server
• http://www.cynic.org.uk/ :: rejs's web site (Robin Stevens)
• http://www.thedom.org/ :: Dom (Dominic Hargreaves)'s web site
• http://www.jimbo.org.uk/~jkg/ :: jimbo (James Green)'s website

Manchester People

Random

Some links to things on the web that have become strangely popular

• http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com and http://www.footballbadgers.com :: really odd animations
• http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/ :: A spoof
• http://www.thomasscott.net/flash/penguin/ :: fluffy the penguin goes skiing (a flash animation)
• http://talyn.hertford.ox.ac.uk/~andy/sossidge.jpg
• http://www.tetrinet.org :: networked tetris - Gtetrinet works well as a linux client