Some links I use a lot myself

• AMTRAK schedules
• NYC area travel, inculding LIRR
• the e-print archives This is on my main page too, but I use it so often I want it everywhere.

Some generally neat stuff

• A generic shipping page. It has info on major shippers, their rates, services, etc.. It's also easy to get to the USPS "Zip+4 look-up engine" from there.
  Oops! The shipping page I linked to was gone, but here is the USPS ZIP+4 look-up engine.
• I got my own computer recently through this "Web auction" service. I don't yet know if I'll ever use it again, but it seems quite nifty.
• Somewhere around every personal home page, there should be a link to something about how to write html documents, or maybe the primer version to get started, and maybe also one about
  cgi-scripting and PERL scripting for html forms or,
  for those who want to get a little fancier, JAVA,
  so others can learn how to do the same (or better).

"Other"

• I am usually not so interested in computer games in general, or other "fantasy games", but a collection of old friends from graduate school created this very interesting trading card based game called Magic: The Gathering. They are working with some software people on the computer fantasy game. It seems that at least initially they are targeting Windows,'95 platforms. Maybe they will go fo rLinux later. If you are interested in such things, check it out.
• I have Debian Linux running on this machine. (It's a Pentium based machine from VaResearch.) This was installed by my friend Brett when he set up a few of these for our research group. (Very) Recently, I bought myself a little computer, a DEC alpha. It has the Red Hat distribution of Linux on it. (I haven't done anything serious with it yet, but just wait.)
  One interesting note: Linux --which is free-- is probably the best documented operating system ever written. Most of the links I cited in this (above) paragraph are good pointers to some information, and the huge amount of information is generally very well organized. If you understand exactly what you want to know, there is usually a short path of links to it, and if you are a total novice there is lots of very general help out there (including very specific instructions with exact steps well delineated for things like initially setting up a system).
• There is lots of free software (some of which I am getting) at the GNU site. (I'm excited about trying out their arbitrary precision arithmetic package.)
• You can check weather forecasts for Kamioka area at this URL.