These are my old links. I now keep them with pinboard (see my pinboard bookmarks) and archive them on this site (see the Links page).
Categories
- Unclassified
- Motorbike
- Sandbox - Links I've not read yet but look potentially good.
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- Online and Electronic Payment Solutions – Information about how to accept electronic payment, including online payments.
- Mobile Phones UK: Reviews & Best Buys – Mobile phone reviews.
- OUTDOORSmagic – Travel and outdoors news, articles and gear reviews.
- Online conversion of weights and measures – Convert weights and measures. These calculators handle both UK and US units.
- Currency Converter – Online currency converter to convert currencies.
- Department of Health – Health and social care policy, guidance and publications for the UK, such as health advice for travellers.
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office – Official advice about travelling abroad.
- NHS Direct Local Services – Find your local NHS Services in England - doctor (GP), dentist, pharmacy, optician.
- Up My Street – Find out information about UK locations, such as the neighbourhood profile, local resources, property market, nearest train station, etc. Pretty much everything.
- IT Jobs Watch – Keep an eye on the UK IT jobs market. Detailed information about average salary / pay relative to different computing skills or jobs.
- List of laws – A list of 'laws' applied to various disciplines. E.g. Moore's law.
- Indo-European Languages – Tutorials for fourteen languages, as well as Linguistics, English grammar, and the History of English.
- geeklawyer.org – Articles about law. They've also got an interesting blog.
- World66 – A travel guide written by travellers. It looks good, but I'm not entirely sure how accurate it is, given that it claims the weather in Manchester never rises above 20 celcius.
- retrievr – An experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
- Digital Cameras - A beginner's guide – Basic guide to digital camera technology.
- National Rail – UK National Rail. Journey planner, maps, etc. If you want to find out which stations are nearest a particular location, you're best off using Up My Street.
- RhymeZone – Find a word's rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.
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Also see the The biking section.
- Sport Bike Motorcycle Performance Test Results – Performance, weights and measurements of all bikes tested by Sport Bike magazine since 1997.
- Membership Renewal Form for The HHOC – Membership Renewal Form for The Hornet's Nest - Honda Hornet Owners Club. Linked here for future reference.
- BFM Motorcycles Online Parts Store – Reputed to be good value for tyres.
- Suspension .... boingg! – Description of suspension adjustments.
- Tapework Graphics - Neon rimstrips – I've some of the neon yellow rim strips on my bike. Looks great as far as I'm concerned.
- The Motorcycle and Side Car Testers Manual – The Motorcycle and Side Car Testers Manual
- Tapework Graphics – I've some of the neon yellow rim strips on my bike. Looks great as far as I'm concerned.
- Ermax – Motorcycle accessories. Mainly plastics. I've got one of their undertrays. In my experience you get absolutely brilliant service. They've gone out of their way to
- Scorpion Exhausts – I have one on my Hornet. Lovely.
- Dynojet - Jet kits – Description of how jet kits work.
- Moto Technique – Manchester based motorbike training school and bikes/accessories sales. This is where I learnt to ride. Unusually they train you on a Honda Hornet 600 for the big bikes course - unusual but brilliant. This site is out of date. Give them a ring on 0161 833
- Hornet's Nest – The best online Honda Hornet resource.
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Links I've not read yet but look potentially good.
- AlltheWeb Livesearch – A search engine that returns results in real time. A bit clunky but potentially useful.
- uSwitch.com – Calculators to help you determine which suppliers are best. It does pretty much everything - phone, broadband, utilities, loans, banks, digital tv, etc etc.
- Switch with Which? – Energy calculator could help reduce your bills by determining which supplier is best.
Also see
- Africa Links - Some links that could prove useful when researching into a trip to Africa, specifically Tanzania and Uganda.
- Old page of useful links from mindspill.net version 3
