my thoughts

One of the things that you realise as your familiarity with London grows is how many Tube journeys are unnecessary. Follow the link below to see a project which maps walking distances over the Tube map: rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2003/10/london_tube_map.html

A look at trends in software development, especially the hype surrounding many current (XP, Struts, .NET) and past (WAP) technologies.
www.softwarereality.com/soapbox/softwarefashion.jsp

Despite the general public not knowing what a WiFi hotspot is (article), there are a number of useful Wireless networking resource websites around. Here are a few that I've found useful:

airshare.org/
www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/all_wireless_articles
wifinetnews.com/
www.wi-fiplanet.com/

A broadband internet connection can be put to good use as a way of keeping in touch for free. Both my parents and my wife's parents live a long way from us, and we all have broadband. We have used MSN messenger and Yahoo! Messenger to have voice and video calls. MSN has great audio quality but poor webcam image quality, Yahoo! tends to be slow (but is better for IM). Neither of these work well through a NAT or firewall (actually, MSN Messenger 6 works with Windows XP and a uPnP compatible firewall).
messenger.msn.com/
messenger.yahoo.com/

Skype is a new product that offers great call quality, which works right out of the box with no configuration (no NAT issues), but which doesn't support video.
www.skype.com/

I'm building a new PC to replace our ageing pIII-450. I'm building a very fast very cool and hopefully fairly quiet PC. I've made a list of all of the required components, and I've got a list of component vendors, and I'm reading through mountains of serious test results, opinion and reviews to choose the best bits. Here are some resources I've found useful in making my decisions...

Reviews & news
www.anandtech.com - excellent tech analysis
www.tomshardware.com - very in depth
www.xbitlabs.com - more tech reviews
www.extremetech.com

Describing the choices made in building a new pc
This is an excellently written discussion of building a new PC!
www.dansdata.com/p4coc.htm

Dual Channel Ram & Memory Tuning
DDR RAM doesn't really spread its wings until it's installed in dual-channel motherboards that add together the memory bandwidths from two DDR modules. These motherboards are using Nvidia nForce 2 chipsets for AMD CPUs, or Intel 865 (Springdale) and 875 (Canterwood) chipsets for Intel processors. There is one catch - you always have to have two memory modules, In fact, RAM manufacturers such as Corsair and Geil even sell matched pairs of memory modules as a bundle especially for dual-channel systems.
(www.overclockers.co.uk sell matched PC 3200 DIMMS (400Mhz) from TwinMOS at a reasonable price.)
www.tomshardware.com/howto/20030701/memory_tuning-01.html

I bought my new PC bits from the friendly people at www.overclockers.co.uk - Huge catalogue of quality kit, and some keen prices too!

I stumbled across this useful and well illustrated guide to ingredients while wondering from whereabouts on the pig the tenderloin cut comes! The meats section is particularly informative.
www.foodsubs.com/

In his paper entitled "A plan for spam" Paul Graham explains the limitations of traditional weighted word systems for dealing with junk mail. The Bayesian filter technique provides a more accurate method of catching the bad mail and not trapping legitimate messages.
www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

The SpamBayes project have developed a good mail filter based on this idea. Many versions are available, including a plugin for Outlook.
spambayes.sourceforge.net/

The Jargon Dictionary has all the terms that puzzled you. The IT world is full of acronyms, Whatis IT provides useful definitions. info.astrian.net/jargon/ whatis.techtarget.com/

For some really funny pictures that are made with a combination of good photoshop technique and really really bad puns try these sites...
www.howstrange.com/
www.limpfish.com/pics.php

How often have you seen an advert and wondered what the music was that they used? This site has a database searchable by song title, artist and advert. It also has artist profiles and stretches all the way back to 1996.
www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/
See also www.whatsthatcalled.com/ and www.thereel.net/