Links

A bunch of links I used to use in the 90's... I'll get around to updating them soon, but for now this'll have to do.

Twitter is the latest fashionable tool for disseminating information to all and sundry. Its actually pretty good for a micro-blogging service, though sometimes the 140 character limit can be a bit stifling.
Flickr is the definitive photo-sharing site on the net. It was bought by Yahoo a couple of years ago and there was uproar about that, but from what I can see they didn't change that much.
LinkedIn has established itself as one of the premier "professional" social networks. It hosts details of you and your colleagues and allows more professional interaction than you would find on Facebook or Bebo.
Facebook is the daddy of all Social Networking sites. If you aren't on Facebook, well then you aren't.
Bebo is a kind of junior version of Facebook. It is very popular in Ireland which is why you find me on there.

Slashdot	Slashdot (/.) is one of the most-read linux advocacy sites on the net.
C\|Net News	News.com used to be the best source for news on the net, but in the last couple of years its getting boring and financial orientated.
The Register	UK internet and technical news site with an ironic and slightly satirical bent.
Silicon.com	UK News site with a nice design, but the content sometimes isn't brilliant. Has a mobile channel on AvantGo
Wired News	News site with a generally technical bent. Great reporting, good stories.
Need To Know	UK site with a satirical look at whats happening in the internet / technical world over the last week. A "must read".
Scalloblog	Scally. Need I say more?
Kevin!	Great shockwave game to while away the hours.
DevGuru	Good XML tutorials
Electrotank	More fun for conference calls - their multi-player mini-golf rules.
FS2002	Flight Simulator 2002. If you don't already have it, you probably didn't want it anyway.
XHTML Spec	W3C XHTML Standard definition
HTML 4.01 Specification	W3C HTML 4.01 Specification.
CSS 1.0	Cascading Style Sheet level 1 specification from the W3C
CSS 2	W3C Cascading Style Sheet level 2 specification
Dave Bushe	Friend's blog
Understanding XSLT	Good Web Monkey tutorial about XSLT
The Wayward Weblog	The Wayward Weblog - a funny read as well as some instructive programming stuff.
Currency Converter	XE.Com has a great currency converter here
P3P Compliance	The W3C's list of P3P compliant sites
ReadyHosting	Fantastic web hosting company - $99 per year for all the web space you could want, and some great features, like SQL Server, lots of components etc.
4 Guys	Great ASP / SQL / VBScript site
Amex	American Express UK online account information
BetaPlace	MS Beta site
FlightSim	FlightSim.com is a FS site with a fairly large file library and some good articles. It uses the concept of "nodes", like in the old BBS days, which I find fucking annoying
AVSim	Another FLightSim site, this one is really good.
PSS	Creators of the best add-on aircraft for FlightSim
MSDN	Microsoft Developer Network is the best place to look for information about programming anything to do with Windows, including web programming
Nevada Casting Group	I can't show you what I did for this site, because its all company-sensitive. This is Dan's old model agancy, where I created a back-end management system for his web site.
Monster.com	Monster is one of the biggest job sites out there. Don't use monster.co.uk, they don't have as much information / features
Google	Best search engine you can find right now
Scan	Good place to buy hardware - their "Today Only" page has fantastic offers each day
Ebuyer	Another good place to buy computer bits. They recently started selling vacuum cleaners too...
BlogDex	Contageous ideas on the net