Links
From Daniel Crabtree
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Tools
One Look (http://www.onelook.com/) - Wild Card Dictionary
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) - Search for papers online
Web Site Optimization (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/), Checker (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/) - Determine optimization level of webpage
Desilva (http://www.desilva.biz/gzip-test.php), Leknor (http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php) - Test is a webpage is using gzip compression
Dictionary & Thesaurus (http://dictionary.reference.com/)
Resources
Exchange Rate Raw Data (http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/exandint/b1/) - Exchange Rate Data from RBNZ
Reference
Interest.co.nz (http://www.interest.co.nz/news.asp) - Investment News
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) - Encyclopedia
Regular Expressions (http://www.regular-expressions.info/)
Yahoo Box Office (http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/weekend/) - Movie Takings
News
The Inquirer (http://www.the-inquirer.com/) - Technology / Computer News
Shop Sites
Ascent (http://www.ascent.co.nz) - Good online computer store with physical presence in Willis Street, Wellington.
Price Spy (http://www.pricespy.co.nz/) - Compare prices of computer hardware in NZ
Neat
Guess Who I am (http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html) - A neat 20 question style game where the website will guess which actor/actress/celebrity you are
Wellington Webcams (http://citylink.co.nz/services/webcam/) - These used to be good to view live feeds from around Wellington, but now you cannot access them from various ISPs who have chosen sub optimally to de-peer from peering exchanges around NZ. Perhaps they can be accessed via proxy servers? I haven't tried, but it used to be good to view them.
