Links

Here are some links to a few of the people and things that interest me, so that I can feel I'm doing my bit to help Google's PageRank :-)

Family

Sarah-Janet - my lovely wife
Tui - my beautiful daughter
Thomas - my new son

Research

In the course of my PhD I'm collecting a lot of links, which can be found on my page of research bookmarks.

Sites I visit often

Slashdot - news for nerds
Freshmeat - fresh Unix software
Hotscripts - PHP scripts
Version Tracker - OS X software
Memepool - for wierdness

Great software

Mozilla - the best browser
PHP - my favorite language
Moodle - OK, blatant plug
ADODB - database abstraction
TMDA - eliminate all spam from your life
Squirrel Mail - very tidy webmail

Great movies

Fight Club
Being John Malkovich
Contact
The Matrix
Dark City
Blade Runner
Gattaca
Brazil
City of Lost Children
Delicatessen

Great music

Too much to list here ... my tastes are very broad: Rewd, Nine Inch Nails, Regurgitator, The Cure, Happy Rhodes, Grant Green, Galactic, Morcheeba, Talvin Singh, Johnny Clegg, The Fixxx, Beck, Midnight Oil, Foo Fighters, Talvin Singh, Thomas Dolby, Cafe Del Mar, good electronica, stirring classical, Gregorian chants, Greek music. I like funky grooves, interesting sounds and sharp lyrics, but many a mellow, moody track is in my music collection too. Once, many years ago, I felt the need to transcribe every single one of J.J.Cale's excellent songs (they can be found on this J.J.Cale site).