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Contents:
Search Engines
Geek Stuff
Web-related Resources
Chat
Music
Movies
Bicycling
Hiking
Spirituality
Photography
Health
Family, Friends, & Acquaintances
Miscellaneous Links
Search Engines
Google
- I don't really use anything else much
Altavista
- useful for translating foreign sites...
Geek Stuff
Privoxy
- based on junkbuster (below), but even better! (free) No unwanted banner ads, popups, cookies, etc.
Junkbuster
- blocks ads in web pages - great stuff! (free)
Mozilla
- free alternative to M$ Internet Explorer (free). Mozilla Firebird is an excellent browser (and the one I use).
Opera
- another alternative web browser. Its very fast and includes some great features. (free with ads, $39 with no ads)
Vim
- I do all of my editing with this (free)
Mutt
- excellent UNIX text-based mail reader (free)
The Bat!
- great Windoze mail reader (shareware, $25-45)
AltDesk
- multiple virtual desktops for Windoze (shareware, $15)
Windowmaker
- This is the window manager I used for years on my UNIX systems before giving up on using a non-vendor-supplied desktop (free)
Slashdot
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News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters
(so they say at least)
The Register
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
Sun Microsystems
- I work here
Dilbert
Web-related Resources
Index DOT Html
- a really, really good reference for writing HTML
Index DOT Css
- a great reference for using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
w3.org's HTML & CSS validators
- see how broken your HTML is ;-)
Chat
Yahoo! Messenger
MSN Messenger
ICQ
Trillian
- chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, and Yahoo.
Spirituality
The Dalai Lama
Health
FitDay
- I've used this to keep track of my nutrition
TotalTrainer
- I use this (free!) software to keep my exercise logs
Fast Food nutritional information
Family, Friends, & Acquaintances
Jeremy Bolt
- my cousin
Felix Wong
Piero Scaruffi
- huge site, great resource for just about everything
Kevin Gong
- good site, especially his excellent hiking section!
Miscellaneous Links
Everything
- user-contributed information about, well, pretty much everything
Craig's List
- regional message boards for, well, just about anything
Intellicast
- good weather site
KCBS
- SF Bay Area weather and traffic
BART
- the Bay Area's "Rapid Transit" System
The Keepers Of Lists
- lists of everything
Rum & Monkey
- various "what sort of <thing> are you?" questionairres
Pong!
Rotten.com
- truly disgusting stuff - you've been warned!
Last modified 10 September, 2004 PDT
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Adam R. Paul
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