Links

OK, a list of links to sites I find useful

Guiding

Girlguiding UK
Girlguiding Laser
NetGuides - a pilot that has now ended of Guiding on the internet for girls unable to go to meetings
Guiding UK - Unofficial mailing list for UK Guiders and Young Leaders
Best of Guiding UK (BOGUK)

News

BBC News A wonderful, authoritative source of news, if sometimes let down by poor sub-editing.
Telegraph My newspaper of choice.
Guardian A newspaper you might expect me to hate - but I don't, I enjoy reading about different points of view; besides, it has a wonderful jobs section.

Miscellenous

Yes, I'm a Conservative - go see the website, and ask yourself why you're not.
Fastmail - the best free email service available, or so I'm told. Certainly far better than Hotmail
Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!
Geek Code - a bit of fun
Decode Geek Code
Google
GNU Privacy Guard
Linux - an alternative operating system to Windows, which I intend to try at some stage
LiveJournal
London.crafts'Crafty doings by geeky people' - instructions on joining this mailing list
London.crafts wiki (website anyone may edit)
Multimap
NHS Direct
PuTTY - Hmm, this is hard for me to describe since I don't really understand it myself - it's SSH, which is a secure version of telnet for Win 32. It's kind of useful though, so I'm including it here.
Village Fabrics - the other website I write; not for me, but for my mother's company

Oxford

University Website The starting point, if you want to know more about the University - there's a lot of information there, so don't try to take it all in at once.
Merton College Information about one of the most beautiful Colleges in the city.
Merton JCR
OUSU
Oxford Union

People

If you want/don't want to be listed here, then let me know.

Programming

Cygwin - makes Windows work like Linux - sort of - it's a bit bit for me to download via a dial up connection
Java
Java tutorial
JavaScript - not the same as Java
Perl
Simon's book on perl - has been pointed out to me as the place to begin.
PHP
Python - another programming language, supposedly easier to learn than perl

Usenet

The gateway to the Internet - I don't think anyone should be let loose online without first having passed through Usenet. I didn't and I've certainly suffered as a result. Nowadays I find Usenet useful for having a rant and, in some specific areas, for obtaining information.

Comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html Useful resource if you're learning to write HTML
UK.legal People who like to think they know the law, and who sometimes just have to be shot down.:-)
Rec.Scouting.UK - Useful resource for Guiding, though it tends to be very Scouting focused.

Website writing

Accessify Forum - help on making sites accessible to those with disabilities
Any Browser Campaign - the site dedicated to encouraging web authors to write pages that look good in all browsers
Appache HTTP Server Version 1.3 Documentation - lots of useful information, including some on Server Side Includes
Black Cat Networks - the lovely, lovely people who host this site for me
Bobby - Accessibility validator
Hexadecimal colour codes - to specify colours in CSS/HTML
WC3 - the people who set the standards for HTML and CSS, and provide validators so one can check the accuracy of one's code
(X)HTML validator
CSS validator
Link checker
Vim - a text editor, like Notepad, but much more powerful, if a little harder to use.
Vim User Manual

More links will be added over time, if any are broken, please email me, and let me know: I've tried to select links to home pages, that are less likely to change than links to specific parts of sites, but things do change.

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