my thoughts

Here's what seems to be an authoritative history of Absinthe, an often misunderstood, but surprisingly nice drink. I've tried a couple (at vinopolis, london) and it's a pleasant experience, in great moderation!

"..The taste comes on with all the subtlety of a freight train, and unless youíre a fan of Pernod or anisette, it takes getting used to. Even with the sugar and ice-water dilution, the flavor is full-bore, uncompromising and, for lack of a better phrase, right up in your face."
www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/11-02/11_02_absinthe.htm

Found myself looking for an enhanced version of the netstat command, and found this site - which has many freeware and useful system monitoring tools for download.
www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
(It's similar to: www.analogx.com for tools/content)

Hooray! I've updated my website: Cleaned out any rubbish or irrelevant bits, added new content. The site's now focused on web development resources (things I find useful as a professional web developer), the other section is about me, how to contact etc... Take a look around:
www.get2dom.com

Thirteenth Parallel is an excellent site stuffed with interesting articles on JavaScript techniques, user centered design and many tutorials. It's an issue based site with an interesting navigation!
www.13thparallel.org

Whoah there! Now here's an interesting article presenting the idea that allowing requirements to evolve is a normal, acceptable process. I feel an opinion forming already, and I'm not sure that I agree entirely.
www.alistapart.com/stories/scopecreep/

The co-op is to double the amount of fair trade chocolate available in the UK. Some of the best chocolate I have tried is fairly traded, and giving a fair deal to farmers is well worth it!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2512921.stm

Quite a handy FAQ list of simple queries.
vyaskn.tripod.com/sql_server_tools_faq.htm

I know it's dull, but here's a very comprehensive (yet short) document on the full UK postcode specification. This recently came in very handy while writing a regex to validate them.
www.lscdata.gov.uk/data/Annex%20C.doc

Ryan Geiss makes some of the best winamp visualisation software, and there's a new plugin available - a 3d tunnel zoomer thing! Excellent.
www.nullsoft.com/free/monkey/

Here's a good mix of science and fun, with an interactive demonstration of some common optical illusions.
www-bcs.mit.edu/gaz/