Andrew's website - links

Here is a list of all the external links mentioned elsewhere on this website.

Websites I've created
- Berry Park
- Digger Remastered
Other peoples' websites
- North Devon Marketing Bureau
- Budehaven Community School
- Cambridge University
- Queens' College, Cambridge
- Queens' college computer room
- Physics at Cambridge - the Cavendish labs.
- Maths at Cambridge
- Book - Bjarne Stroustrup - "The C++ Programming Language"
- Book - Peter van der Linden - "Just Java"
- Freetype - Free implementation of the Truetype font engine used by Microsoft Windows and Apple.
- Mirabilis - Home of ICQ.
- Amstrad stuff - including the Amstrad PC1512 boot disks.
- Deltasoft - Home of GEM
- PC Plus
- Martin Computer Services - where I got my laptop.
- JASC - Home of the brilliant Paint Shop Pro image editing software.
- Computer stupidities
- Gorden E. Peterson II - author of the PC Speaker driver.
- Microsoft, my future employers, who have nothing to do with this site or anything on it.
- Debian GNU/Linux.
- Secure Digital Music Initiative - It'll never work.
- Ordinal Numbers - a mind boggling concept.
- Microsoft's Single Instance Store.
- Slashdot - News for nerds. Stuff that matters. Essential.
- 192 - Directory enquiries website. A useful collection of publicly available information from electoral registers, phone directories, etc. which lets you find all sorts of information about almost anyone in the UK.
- DJ Delorie's website - home of DJGPP, a port of GCC for DOS.
- Allegro - A graphics library for DJGPP.
- Fractint - The original and still the one of the best fractal generators around.
- Happy End Problem - A romantic mathematical puzzle.
- Circle puzzles - including Mrs Miniver's problem, a romantic mathematical puzzle.
- Happy Numbers
- Friendly Numbers
- Newton and the kissing problem - a romantic mathematical puzzle.
- Lundy Island
- The Jessica Hettie, a good way to get there.
- Otmar Lendl's Ultima VI maps.
- Philip Brogden's website (he created the map for the Origin Worlds of Ultima game Martian Dreams).
- Ultima VI
- Savage Empire
- Martian Dreams
- Bartholomew Melnicki's Ultima VI maps.
- BBC Radio 2.
- A page about Kevin Greening.
- sopwith.org
- Anglo-American Vulcanized Fibre, where I worked for 2 months in the summer of 1999.

Here are some other useful links, because none the other pages of links that you can find on the web just aren't good enough. Links are to UK/European mirrors of the sites where possible. My web browser starts up to a condensed version of this list (give or take a few sites).

Search engines
- Altavista - good flexible all rounder.
- All The Web - doesn't quite live up to it's name, but still the most thorough engine I've seen.
- Google - the most intelligent engine I've seen.
- Yahoo international or UK - not a search engine but a searchable list of links to sites which are generally of high quality (it's very difficult to get a site listed there). Useful if the site you're looking for happens to be there.
Useful resources
- BBC - the best TV in the world.
- Amazon UK - Find the book you're looking for. Don't buy it from them, though - they do nasty things with patents in the US.
- CDNow - Good for finding the name of a song or who it's by. You can listen to snippets of some of them as well.
- Deja - Formerly Dejanews, archives of USENET newsgroups. It's Power search is most useful.
- Internet Movie Database - Everything you wanted to know about any movie, ever.
- National express - good way of getting between places in the UK.
- Railtrack - another good way of getting about.
- Slashdot - News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
- Everything that you ever wanted to know about anything.
- Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - Earth edition.
- The Oldskool PC - Stuff from a more innocent and exciting age.
- FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions about pretty much everything.
- Treasure Troves - Fantastic resource about Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy and Rocketry.
- GNU - All sorts of stuff about open source software in general and the GNU (GNU's Not Unix) project in particular.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - Protecting your rights to free speech and privacy online.
- Caldera - who bought Digital Research, and hence GEM.
- List of Lists - A great Star Trek resource.
- Hornet - The sadly deceased hub of the PC demo scene.
- Babelfish - Automatic translation between English and one of French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. If you're bored you can back-translate stuff and see what nonsense comes out.
- Warner Village cinemas - you can even book tickets online.
- Project Gutenberg - Out of copyright books, electronic texts.
- Radio Times - TV and radio listings.
- Onelist - Email mailing lists. Discussion groups. Home of the Digger lists, and, it seems, most of the other lists I'm subscribed to.
- Hotmail - Free web-based email.
- IName - Free web-based email and redirection.
- Freshmeat - The very latest open source software. Read it daily, at least.
- John Baez's website - he's a mathematical physicist. There's all sorts of fun and interesting and stuff there.
- BIDS (Bibliographic Information Data Services) - cares far more about keeping its database secret from those who do not have a password than about making its site easy to use. Annoying, but a necessary evil for academics who need to search for papers.
- Royal Mail - Handy for looking up postcodes.
- A Word A Day - Mailing list for linguaphiles.
- UK Maps searchable by place or postcode.
Humour and cartoons
- rec.humor.funny archives - biggest humour repository on the web. Will also give you a Random joke if you ask nicely.
- The Onion - News parody.
- Segfault - News parody for nerds.
- User Friendly - Daily comic strip for nerds. Be sure to check out their link of the day.
- Dilbert - Daily comic strip. See also the List Of The Day.
- After Y2K - Daily comic for geeks.
- Calvin & Hobbes - Daily comic strip.
- Peanuts - Daily comic strip.
- Sluggy - Daily comic strip.
- Kevin & Kell - Daily comic strip.
- General Protection Fault - Daily comic strip.
- Avalon - Daily comic strip.
- Alice - Daily comic strip.
- 2600 - Comic strip.
Software download and abandonwarez
- CNet Download - Place to find lots of Windows software.
- Nonags - Software which doesn't try to sell you software.
- Tucows - Lots of Windows shareware/freeware.
- DYNDNS - so you don't have to find out your IP address.
- Classic gaming - does exactly what it says on the tin.
- Gangsters - Links to just about every abandoned PC computer game you can think of.
Sites about specific programs
- Terragen - Draws pretty landscapes.
- Spheres of Chaos - Addictive game.
- XFree86 - Free X server for unix platfoms.
- Winamp - Brilliant multimedia player program.
- Seti@home - Use your spare computer processor time to search for aliens.
- Webcam 2000 is a handy piece of webcam powering software.
- Napster - Find and download music.
- VNC - a handy program for remotely controlling computers.
- Teraterm Pro - a useful Terminal emulator for Windows.
- TTSSH - Encryption extensions for Teraterm Pro.
- An old version of ICQ for Windows. Works fine, but much smaller than the latest versions.
Cambridge
- Varsity - Cambridge student newspaper.
- The Cambridge Student - the other Cambridge student newspaper.
- What's on at the cinema - Warner or Arts cinema.
Random stuff
- Rinkworks - Lots of fun stuff.
- Center for the easily amused - kept me busy for a while.
- User interface hall of shame - You must read this in detail before you design a user interface for a program. I disagree with their stance on the sideways menu bar in Office 97, though - I have it like this and like it because it gives more vertical space for documents, and conforms to the principle of not imposing arbitrary design decisions on the user.
- Atlas of cyberspaces - maps of the internet.
- Anagram Genius - I'm "An inner, charmed jewel". What are you?
- Meta society - Conceptual art and deep thinking.
- Cipher Challenge website - for the competition in Simon Singh's "The Code Book".
- Digger website access statistics
- Some websites about antigravity devices and futuristic spaceship propulsion systems. It'll be really cool if they manage to get this stuff working.
  - Amazing technologies, some of which might work.
  - NASA's site on futuristic propulsion systems
  - Electrogravity
- Renderosity - Computer art, eye candy!
- Fractal gallery - Winners from the 1999 Fractint contest.
- Easter eggs - Undocumented bonus features in computer programs.
Retro TV
- TV Cream - Very extensive.
- Watched it
- Kids TV
- Cult & Classic
Websites of friends and family
- Paul Jenner:Productions
- Welcombe village website
- Jenner family website
- Mark Shinwell
- Julian Brown's website contains all sorts of useful things.
- Dave Welchew. There are some more photos on here.
- Jonathan Kirby
- Beth Goldsmith - my penfriend in the USA. Possibly one of the least frequently updated sites on the web. Arghh! There's an ancient photo of me on there. Don't look at it.