If you are ancient, as I am, you may recall the days before search engines, when navigating the web required knowing where like minded souls maintained hotlists of interesting links, ideally ordered into some sort of sense. Of course there was no social media to identify similarly minded and interesting individuals, these were simpler times and thank goodness we have moved on. That said, here is my hotlist...

Important university pages that are less than easy to find

These links are probably of little interest to people other than myself and other minions of the university

Stuff specifically for me

For those times when I don't have a browser bookmarks bar

My stuweb.cms student page
- studb.cms
My staffweb.cms page - heh heh
My stuiis.cms page
My stu-nginx.cms page student page
My stu-nginx.cms page staff page
How to edit a register into a spreadsheet
Report Writing Skills from Sylvia Corsham, De Montfort University
Presentation Skills from Brian Hood, Citigroup

Genius

Natural Languages

Linux

This operating system is worth a special mention

I have been preaching from my soap box for a long time now but for some peculiar reason most people find it hard to accept what I have to say. So... sit up and pay attention!

MICROS~1 are the Ratners of software, pile it high, sell it cheap.

If Bill ever came clean and told the truth, i.e. MICROS~1 products are not 'neat', actually they are pretty awful but dressed up to look good in the marketplace, then how long would he stay in business? The man is less truthful than Lord Archer, the organisation is built on selling defective products. So how does he get away with it? Ignorance. The past decade has seen an explosive growth in a market that is largely ignorant of the products it buys. This ignorance is most visible in the IT sectors of industry. The 80's saw Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) keep IBM in business because nobody ever got sacked for buying IBM. Now FUD steers the IT managers to MICROS~1. Unfortunately MICROS~1 do not exist to develop software technology, they exist to make money, this is something that they are very good at. In doing so they have retarded IT development while ripping off the world with their bug infested offerings. What has the mighty MICROS~1 development effort given to the world? Approximately nothing, they have hijacked public knowledge, twisted it to be incompatable with anything that is not MICROS~1 and sold it to their ignorant customers. OK, so most of you think that I'm some wierd crank but it now looks like I'm in good company. So if you don't believe me, read on...