Categories

• Meteorology
• Politics
• Computing and Networking
• Broadcasting
• TV programmes and stuff
• Other stuff
• Other people (yes, they do exist..)

• METEOROLOGY
• Latest Meteosat images from the University of Nottingham
  • Full index
  • UK, large scale, visible light
  • Western Europe, large scale, visible light
  • Northern Europe, visible light
  • Northern Europe, thermal infra-red
  • Full Earth disc, visible light
  • Full Earth disc, thermal infra-red
    
  Visible light pictures are updated only during daylight hours (approx. once every hour), whilst IR images are updated 24 hours a day. The UK and Western Europe images (C02/C03) are transmitted roughly every half hour during daylight.
• Other Meteorological Stuff
  • A new and somewhat good-looking resource for earth sciences in general is UIUC's WW2010 project. Definitely worth checking out.
  • The UK Met Office
  • Lots of fascinating surface charts from the University of Köln.
  • The BBC Weather Centre - stacks of interesting stuff.
  • Synoptic chart for the UK, updated 6-hourly. From the University of Karlsruhe.
  • The University of Michigan Weathernet
  • The World Meteorological Organisation

• POLITICS
  This lot have been here since the election, but are probably still useful. You be the judge..
  • Labour are big on buzzwords and have plenty of useful information (if you're willing to hunt for it) but far too many pictures of Tony Blair. The teeth, the teeth..
  • The Liberal Democrats have, IMHO, the best designed site of the "big three" English parties.
  • You can even visit the Tories who have a good press release section, but otherwise seem.. well.. a bit negative about everything.
  • For sheer quantity of information, the SNP site is pretty good, albeit with "celebrity endorsement" photo-op in Sean Connery photo on front page. Am I the only person who thinks that the SNP being in the .uk domain is marginally ironic? *grin*
  • While losing the battle in the "snappy logo" stakes, at least Plaid Cymru (the Party of Wales) haven't sold out by being in the .uk domain. And they were nice enough to mail me when they moved their pages. What nice people.
  • Mustn't forget The Referendum Party. Er, 'nuff said.
  • The Natural Law Party website was down when I tried to visit. I presume it's out yogic flying, or something.
  • I was going to put a link to the British Nationalist Party here, but doing so would acknowledge this bunch of thugs as being a major political force, which they ain't. If you're desperate to find them, use Yahoo. Instead, I'll point you towards The Simon Wiesenthal Centre. In particular, their Cyberwatch pages are used for keeping an eye on the ways in which the Internet is being used by neo-Nazi groups to spread hatred and bigotry.
  • There are stacks more links to political parties, be they normal, single-issue, psychotic or rabid, on Yahoo.

• COMPUTING and NETWORKING
  • Sun Microsystems
  • The Routing Arbiter - lots of fascinating details if you're interested in the murky interior of the Internet.
  • Digex also provide a way to find out what's going on inside some of the major backbones.
  • Closer to home, here are some stats on network load in the Tower Block.
  • The UKERNA info server.
  • The Network Management Server - handy for bluffing your way when discussing obscure networking issues..
  • A cheering band of friendly elves welcomes you to.. The Colossal Cave Adventure Homepage! Find out more about the granddaddy of all adventure games right here.
• BROADCASTING
  • BT Broadcast Services
  • Channel 4
  • The BBC have revamped the home page. And now there's a page for those fine people at Wood Norton as well..
  • Heavens, my old employers are there too now. Castle Transmission International, known as BBC Transmission before being flogged off, have joined the information wossname. And if you look carefully here, you can see some of my erstwhile colleagues pretending to be hard at work. (I was hiding when the photos were taken)
  • NTL still seem to be struck down with "under construction" fever. Actually, they aren't any more. That wasn't fair of me, to leave that comment there for so long.
  • Broadcast Net - interesting, but American..
  • International Telecommunications Union
  • European Broadcasting Union
  • The UK RDS Forum

• TV Programmes And Stuff..
  • The Muppets Home Page
  • The slightly more official Muppets Home Page
  • The Unofficial Pingu Page - hurrah!
  • The Unofficial Men Behaving Badly Pages
  • I'm enjoying "The Simpsons" more now that I can actually get them on the BBC (good call, chaps). Lots of information is available from The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, with useful UK information (including forthcoming BBC episodes) from The Unofficial UK Simpsons Source.
• OTHER STUFF
  • The Bastard Operator From Hell rides again -- the new stories are here, courtesy of Network Week, while the originals we've all come to know and love are available from Simon's pages.
  • US Naval Observatory - lots of stuff about time.
  • Or if you're even more pedantic about getting the time right, it may be wise to consult the International Earth Rotation Service, who are In Charge of defining exactly what time it is.
  • Dilbert on the Web
  • The Internet Movie Database
  • The Light Bulb Joke Page
  • A Robert E. McElwaine Archive - many classic rants from a net.kook par excellence. You just don't get net.kooks of this standard anymore. These days they just post Make Money Fast..
  • The Sock Puppet Gallery - what my former cow-orker Michael Flaherty (no, not Flatley) appears to have done to his webspace.

• OTHER PEOPLE (Mainly other readers of alt.fan.pratchett. They seem to be the only people I know who have web pages. This says something, I think..)
  • Alan Bellingham - aka The Bellinghman. 'Nuff said.
  • Mark "Murky B" B**b*d*e - no comment
  • Colm Buckley - a former co-worker at Trinity, who's now joined the Dark Side. Still a jolly good chap, though.
  • Rob "The Muppet" Collier - long-term afper, previously a Warwick student, now a suffering newsadmin (amongst other things). His is a vodka and orange.
  • Darrell Ottery, - afp's very own Mr. Bitter And Twisted. Less so now, though. Sometimes he even smiles a little.
  • The staggeringly lovely Joann Dominik pontificates on, well, things in general.
  • Bryan won't rip your limbs off. Not usually, at least. Although with the recent fluffiness of this particular pitbull, it seems the limb-ripping-off days may be behind him.
  • Rocky Frisco - all round star of afp, and a swell fellow to boot.
  • Mark Lowes - the arch-revisionist of L-Space, now safely ensconsed in domestic bliss with, oh well, you have a look and see for yourself. Also known as the original *vom*ster. Did I tell you that he had to get someone else to write his own engagement announcement?
  • Karen Kru.. kruzh.. kroojha.. oh, just visit The Vodka Vixen and find out how to pronounce it for yourself. I should point out that she's unspeakably nice as well.
  • Kat Knight is, of course, unspeakably nice. I would say she was sweet and cuddly, but I've always had this thing about avoiding pain...
  • Kat Harris - yes, another Kat. Same as the above, really. Honestly, I really don't know how they do it...
  • Sara Megarry - not a geek at all. She's been to Boston, y'know.