SOME USEFUL LINKS

Free software that I use

• NIST Internet Time Service has a free program that synchronizes your computer's clock with a server at NIST.
• Cygwin provides a Unix shell and unix commands for Windows users.
• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSView can be used for viewing postscript files on Windows.
• ActivePerl

• Get recommendations for restaurants, stores, dentists, doctors, etc. if you live in the Triangle Area of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). This is a very slow link, but it's an excellent source of information.

California Stuff

• Earthquake information
• Bay Area Radio Stations
• Landmark Theatres - San Francisco Peninsula
• Stanford Amateur Radio Club
• Intellicast Weather Forecast
• Santa Clara Valley IEEE
• Recommendations for dentists in the Bay Area
• More recommendations for dentists in the Bay Area
• California driving tours
• Change of the Peninsula
• San Jose Downtown Association - has a list of restaurants in SJ
• MetroActive Bars, Clubs, and Cafes Guide
• Dasaprakash a nice Indian restaurant
• NAPA Valley brewery tour
• Chabot Observatory
• Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton
• openspace.org
• Trail Center
• Cinelux Theatres

• Epinions.com is a great place to get first-hand reviews from users for thousands of products

• Radio Station Finder
• Comic strips -- a compendium of websites
• The Dilbert Zone
• Get movie reviews at the Internet Movie Database and from Mr. Cranky
• AdCritic.com will get you laughing like never before!
• everypoet.com - for poets, poetry lovers, would-be poets...

• Credit Card Goodies can help select a credit card that matches your needs. The site has nice information on credit cards with rebate programs, credit cards with the lowest interest rates, etc.
• S&P 500 -- An alphabetical list of the companies that make us the S&P 500 stock index

• The Merck Manual - Home Edition (Online) is a very useful resource for finding easy to understand information about medical conditions
• The NIH Health Information Index
• Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma

• How stuff works?
• Americom's Long Distance Area Decoder
• Country codes
• Encyclopedia Britannica is online!
• QueenDom.Com has a nice collection of tests and puzzles
• Worldtime gets you the current time anywhere in the world
• The nine planets is an interactive tour of the Solar System
• The Merriam-Webster dictionary, the hypertext Webster interface, and Roget's Thesaurus
• The World Factbook has useful information on all countries
• Currency exchange rates
• The Virtual Tourist

• A.Word.A.Day is an easy way to improve your vocabulary

• What is ...? -- a quick, helpful technical resource
• Delphion Intellectual Property Network
• DOS Batch Files
• Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems
• Mkfunctmap is a tool that prints the calling tree for a program
• The story of the PING program is a light account of the development of the PING utility by its author, Mike Muuss
• The Information Technology Professional's Resource Center
• IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee
• A1 JavaScripts
• ingenta - publication database
• RAD University has some nice tutorials on networking.
• The SONET home page
• Watersprings - Links to Internet drafts and RFCs
• Techtionary -- An animated technical dictionary

• Volunteer Match
• Relief International

• The Punt FAQ