Favourite Web Sites

Sport

• Churchill College Boat Club, Cambridge '99 Rowing Club, and Rob Roy Boat Club – my rowing clubs
• Biathlon news and live coverage from Biathlon World and Eurosport
• Formula One: Autosport, Why Formula One is finished for me (by Clive James)
• L'Étape du Tour – ride a stage of the Tour de France
• Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov – the famous figure skating duo
• Cricket live scores, audio and video from Cricinfo, Cricket Australia and the BBC

Engineering

• Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists
• Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass – the delights of research
• Why I gave my students at MIT back their tuition money

Computing

• MathWorks – developers of MATLAB and Simulink
• GUI Layout Toolbox – layout manager for MATLAB GUIs
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing – "a 1997 classic"

Cambridge

• Cambridge Cycling Campaign
• Sobering task for Cambridge dean
• Weather gauges and historic data

Sydney

• New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service

Hiking

• Cicerone Guides – hiking and mountaineering books
• Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre – GR "topoguides"
• Berggasthaus Trift – a favourite place to stay
• REI and Mountain Equipment Co-op – clothing and equipment
• British Mountaineering Council – insurance

Miscellaneous

• Despair, Inc. – increasing success by lowering expectations
• FlightView, SeatGuru, FlyerTalk – air travel

Long gone

Many favourites have been and gone. Some are missed more than others:

• Liv Grete Poirée, Norwegian biathlete – home.online.no/~lcorneli/livgreteeng.htm
• Terry Tate, Office Linebacker – www.terrytate.reebok.com – still on YouTube
• Cambridge pubs, 118 of them – www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk
• The Polos of Death, the Churchill cinematic masterpiece – www.thepolosofdeath.com
• Sergei Korolev, mastermind of the Soviet space program – http://www.cosmosclub.org/journals/1998/harford.html