Four Things to Review

A Friday Hodgepodge

When I stumble across possibly useful things on the web, I'll bookmark them with a to-do tag to look at later. Here are a few you might also find useful.

1. If you need to get a quick weather forecast for the week ahead, the National Weather Service is good, as long as you're in the U.S.

But for anywhere else, you might feel stuck with how slow and resource-hogging the bigger commercial sites have gotten.

You might find timeanddate (same example for comparison, but scroll down for week; here's Paris) to be a relief if you want your "quick check" of the weather to be quick.

The site also provides lots of other information, like sunrise/sunset, time zone information, and moon phases.

2. They aren't all underground websites (unless can't find with Google is your criterion), but many of these "useful underground websites" look promising.

I didn't find timeanddate here, although I bet it shows up, and I can't vouch for many of these as going through this remains on the to-do list...

3. I was a submariner in a past life, and on that basis alone would recommend going through The Rickover Corpus, which is an archive of the speeches and memos of the father of America's nuclear navy.

The commenters on this thread at Hacker News would seem to agree that it is worthwhile.

4. On some preliminary inspection, I'm not sure how useful this thread on tricks of the trade that folks in technology think they "took too long to learn" will be. That said, a couple of things keep it on the list for perusal during a walk some time, so I'll log it here, too.

-- CAV