Searches

• Google
  
• Wikipedia - Collaborative Encyclopaedia
  
  
• Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
  
  
• Encyclopædia Britanica at Wellington Library
  log on first with library card number
  
  
• dictionary.com
• How Stuff Works - Technology Encyclopaedia
  
• What Is? - IT Encylopedia

Entertainment

• YouTube
• Free Compact Disc Database
• Rotten Tomatoes
• The Internet Movie Database
• The Pirate Bay Titles only

News

• Stuff - News from Wellingon, New Zealand
• Time magazine - US/global
• Dr. Dobbs Journal - Programming
• SlashDot - Technology News

Life in Wellington

• Event Guides

  • Gig Messenger
  • Wotzon
  • Eventfinder
  • WellingtonNZ Events
  • Obscure - Wellington Events

• Music Venues

  • Bodega
  • SFBH
  • Valve
  • Southern Cross

• Cinemas

  • Embassy
  • Paramount
  • Penthouse
  • Empire in Island Bay
  • Reading Cinema
  • Hoyts Cinema

• Theatres

  • Bats
  • Circa
  • Gryphon
  • Downstage

• Museums and Galeries

  • Te Papa - Museum of NZ
  • City Gallery

• Maps

  • Wellington on Google Maps
  • Wises Street Map

• Delivered Food

  • Hell Pizza
  • Domino's Pizza
  • The Curry Club


• NZ Public Holiday Dates
• MetService Wealther
• Weather report
• Bus Timetables
• Wellington Harbour WebCam
• NZ White Pages
• NZ Yellow Pages

Psy Trance and Parties!

• Psy DJ
• M*A*S*S*I*V*E - Christchurch
• Aotearoa Outdoor Styles
• Full-Om
• Luminate
• Alien Nation
• Canaan Downs Festival


• I do live interactive fractals at parties

Computer Hardware

• Price Spy
• Price Me
• Ascént
• Atech
• Dick Smith

Computer Programming

• C++ - My language of choice
  • C Library Reference Guide
  • C++ iostreams Reference
  • Standard Template Library Programmer Guide Index
  • wxWidgets - Cross-Platform GUI Library
  • SDL - Cross-Platform High Performace Graphics and Sound Library
  • Microsoft Visual C++ .NET
    The current state of the art C++ development environment,
    the only thing that keeps me using Windoze.
    Edit recompile and execute arbitrary code while debugging!
    
  • GCC Manual
  • GNU Make Manual
• Python - My scripting language of choice, 95% OO and 100s of libraries out of the box
• Python Database API Specification v2.0
• SQL Alchemy Python Object Relational Mapper
• AWK - Premo scripting language intalled on every Unix box
• Java
  • Sun's Java 6 Pages
  • Sun Java FAQ
  • The Java Tutorial
• Graphics
• SDL - Fast cross platform lowlevel graphic API
• Ming - C/C++/Pyton/Perl/PGP Shockwave Flash output library
• OpenGL - Open, high speed, 2D and 3D graphics API
• Programming Guide
• Reference Manual
• Misc
  • Google Code Search:
  • Inno Setup - Windows installer generator, scripted in Pascal but can call C/C++ DLLs
  • SWIG - Autobuild wrappers for C/C++ libs
    to be called from Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, TCL, C#, Java...
  • Unicode
  • CORBA
  • @Icon Sushi - Windows Icon Converter (to/from Alpha channel PNG(s))
  • MySQL
  • Wireshark - Protocol Analyser (formally Ethereal)
    see what your apps are sending over the network
• Wave - My language under development

Web Authoring

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1
• WebDAV extensions
• Cookies
• HTML 4.01
• Character entities
• JavaScript
• JavaScript Reference - great quick reference
• JavaScript Kit Reference
• W3C DOM
• Microsoft DOM
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Specifications CSS1
• Guide
• Properties

Historical Computer Game Emulators

• Spacewar! 1962 MIT - The first computer game docs
• Space Invaders 1978 Taito - The classic game

Good Causes

Muslims give Zakāt, 2.5% of their savings they have held for a full year to charity, so should you.

• Oxfam
• Greenpeace - the planet
• Cancer Society of New Zealand
• Barnardos New Zealand - kids and families

Miscellaneous

• Gmail - Google's web email
• Trademe - NZ second-hand tradding
• BankDirect - A bank
• Forex Rates
• Kiwibank
• World Exchange - The cheapest/fastest ISP in Wellington

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