Use these links when you shop.

Amazon stores

Other sites

Tunes

• SomaFM - home of Groove Salad and Secret Agent, as close to perfection as internet radio gets
• TotallyRadio - home of the essential Solid Steel stream

Technical (without which this site would not be possible)

• LivingDot - my host, and a very helpful host at that
• Learning Movable Type for all kinds of help
• W3 Schools for CSS help
• Feed Validator to check my feeds
• Image Optimizer to keep my page weight down
• Loading time checker to monitor my page weight

Blog Networks

• BritBlog
• BlogMad
• BlogAdvance
• BlogExplosion
• BlogClicker

Other People's Property (blogs and more)

• Alvin Valles
• Bayzarre
• Hazel Tree
• Ho-Ho Cognitive Process
• Martian Anthropologist
• Miss Elly
• Question of the Day
• Rick Turko - the voice of tomorrow. Or the voice of last week. Anyway, the voice.

The Games I Play

• The Kingdom of Loathing
• Dark Solstice

Social Networking places that I hang out

• 43 Things
• 43 Places
• 43 People
• Lists of Bests
• All Consuming
• Flickr
• Postcrossing

Social Do-gooding

• Bookcrossing
• Freecycle - main site
• Freecycle - my group
• Pledge Bank

Software - what I use and recommend

• Firefox - the better browser
• ForecastFox - hugely useful weather forecast extension for Firefox
• Open Office - for general personal use, as good as MS Office but free
• A9 toolbar - toolbars are becoming ubiquitious but this has innovative features and keeps on evolving.
• The Gimp - photo editing software. Like Photoshop but free.

Reference

• a9.com - once you get used to its functionality, the most effective search engine around
• Wikipedia - useful beyong measure
• a2z wordfinder - for when I need to cheat at crosswords