other miscellaneous links

I collect trivia, but never knew where to store it ...
and then I discovered the Web!

I like Classical, Gaelic, and Meat Loaf.
Can you spot the common properties? No? Neither can I.

what I saw on 11 August 1999 (and at other times)

for a (blackly) comic view on life as a programmer, try Dilbert,
or for a more upbeat view, try Microserfs or User Friendly

• Starry Starry Night
• The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

• a Welsh Cob breeder • an Essex County College student • a long dead one

(because it's where I live, even though I work in York...)

Cambridge is a great place for bookshops. My favorites include Forbidden Planet, Heffers, Galloway & Porter, and Waterstones, to name but a few. Plus loads of second hand bookshops and market stalls.

Stephen Eldridge kindly reminded me of the old Cambridge bookshop song (TTTO Frere Jacques):

Heffers bookshop, Heffers bookshop,
Bowes and Bowes, Bowes and Bowes,
Galloway and Porter, Galloway and Porter,
Deighton Bell, Deighton Bell.

But times have changed: Bowes and Bowes is now a Cambridge University Press bookshop; Deighton Bell was taken over by Heffers, and, after Heffers was taken over by Blackwells, closed down, the site curently being a branch of Laura Ashley.

A place that I personally have found good for buying computer kit in Cambridge is World of Computers

• Guide to Cambridge (UK) Web Sites -- (non-University) sites of interest around Cambridge
• Cambridge City Council
• Cambridge Corn Exchange -- "The City's Centre for Arts and Entertainment"

• Near-Cambridge crop 'circle'

• Cambridge-based science fiction:
  • Greg Benford. Timescape
  • Peter F. Hamilton. Mindstar Rising