Links

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 - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters (so they say at least)
• The Register - 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!