A for Apple

Here is a list of the URLs/Websites that turn up as the first entry autosuggested by my browser when I type the letter in the address bar. To make it more interesting, I have also written about the most “interesting” page for each alphabet. I am sure everyone will gain some small thing from reading this. Leave me a comment if you did (gain something).

• • A for Apache, I visited it this morning to check if mod_rewrite works in Windows, in the 2.0.x version.
  • also Pam Logan’s Asia Adventure Page, where I read an interesting account of her travels and work in Asia, a detailed description of the Tibetan Sky Burial ritual. Pam has a Ph.D., is sort of like a rocket scientist, and yet works in China/Tibet to preserve local culture and improve the social conditions. I got here a week ago, the day I was thinking about alternative careers, after my Ph.D. There is hope yet!
• • B for blog.carthik.net, D’Oh!
  • also Leetsoft Blog, where I heard of Typo, a Ruby-on-Rails powered blog tool, which incidentally seems to use the WordPress default theme, aka Kubrick, as a default style.
• • C for Codex – Recent Changes, I visit this page at least 5 times each hour, when I am not working on something else, checking for changes, vandals, and articles.
  • also Cartalk – a new way to adjust your mirrors, which I got to from a blog on Planet Gnome. This new way of setting your rear-view mirror supposedly reduces the blind spot. Driving with the suggested settings is fun
• • D for Distrowatch, where I am an occasional visitor.
  • also Defective Yeti, the blog of the person who runs another interesting blog, which is also somewhere in this post.
• • E for the English Wikipedia
  • also Ergonomics – How to sit at a computer.
• • F for Flickr’s Creative Commons photos, which is wonderful, really.
  • also, Faqs.org – RFC1178 – Choosing a name for your computer.
• • G for Gmail, blah! Note: I always type the “correct” address – gmail.google.com, instead of “gmail.com”. I never typed “yahoomail.com”, always “mail.yahoo.com”. I am stickler for small things like these – Always call a website by it’s Canonical name
  • also, GnomeFiles, which I visit quite often, to check out the latest Gnome apps.
• • H for HitorMiss – WP Feedreader – a very cool plugin/hack to have a Feedreader which displays new from blogs in your WordPress Linkroll, all within WP.
  • also, Hexfactor’s Archives, where I got to from some other site which said the new way of displaying archives was good.
• • I for Imputor, “Notice to all pirates: Do not download these MP3s. We have logged your name, phone number, and IP address. We are going to sue you. Just kidding.” hah!
  • also, ISO recorder power toy for Windows, so you can write from .iso files, using Windows XP’s Explorer CD burner. I looked this up for a friend.
• • J for Jodathmorr, some random guy I was helping at #wordpress
  • also, Joe Maller – getSelection() issues in Safari, something Matt pointed to on some mailing list.
• • K for Kiplinger Magazine, where I was searching for an old article about the best cars of 2005. I was a public library a few days ago, and I saw this magazine, with this article mentioned on the cover, so I flipped through the pages and soon was done with the magazine, and then I went, “Wait a minute, what happened to the article I wanted to read?”. Turns out someone had performed a perfect surgery – removing the pages containing the article, without leaves any traces. Perfect job, really, I wonder how she did it at a public library!
  • also, Linux on the Xilinx FPGA, remotely work related, move on…
• • L for My livejournal friends page, notice the “?show=P” at the end, that ensures that only articles by people appear on the page – no communities, or feeds.
  • also, Lug at UCF, yeah, we now have a Linux Users Group at school.
• • M for MooKitty, who seems to be all but off of WordPress.
  • also, Mailinator, email for signing up everywhere, via Skippy.
• • N for Google news
  • also, NWalsh’s Latex figure help, when I was wrestling with a figure in Latex.
• • O for Old South Apartments, near Hilton Head Island, SC – a friend moved there recently.
  • also, Ometer.com – Free Software UI – not free UIs, the UIs of free software, where I got to from a mailing list, again.
• • P for Photomatt, there are no photos, and recently, there’s been very little Matt, but there is a lot of action, usually.
  • also, Research into Tipping, trust me, there is nothing left to be researched in this world.
• • Q for Qingyun.net.cn, don’t ask me what it’s about, ask my labmate.
  • also, do you really expect me to browse a multitude of sites whose name begins with “q”?
• • R for Robinson House, a recent commenter on my blog.
  • also, Marsedit, where I ended up once, for some vaguely remembered reason.
• • S for Skippy,
  • also, jUploadr, a Java based Flickr Uploader.
• • T for Trac – WordPress, so you didn’t know this existed??!!
  • also, Tricks of the Trade, nice way to spend a sunday afternoon.
• • U for United States Postal Service, I was checking my mail the other day
  • also, Near perfect Einstein Ring – Kottke has an astronomy/science fetish, which is nice.
• • V for Some IM guide. I was trying to “link” my ICQ number to my AOL screenname.
  • also, note that the above link was the only one beginning with the letter “V”.
• • W for WordPress Support, where I am a lurker, currently.
  • also, Words at Play, a Webby award winner – remarkable waste of time and talent.
• • X for Xilinx.com, actually it was a link to a .pdf manual, but I thought I’d save you the pain of clicking and then waiting for the Acrobat reader to load, which takes forever…
  • also, –bleep–
• • Y for Yelvington.com, no clue how he got here!
• • Z for Zeus Technology , I went to some blog, following a link. The page was missing (404), and that led me to this page.

There! All done. I showed you mine, now you all show me yours . One at a time will be perfect, thank you.