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This page is a frequently updated list of websites I've found to be interesting or useful (or some pages I've created that don't fit anywhere else). The categories will obviously reflect my interests but I hope that you will find them useful too.
Inspiration
People on a Bridge Surprised by Rain (from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo).
The Three Whites (from the series One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji).
From The Dawn of the Floating World, a recent exhibition at the Royal Academy.
The words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968).
One of the treasures of the National Gallery.
In London on 15 February 2003 two million people showed the world how they felt about a war with Iraq.
How many nuclear bombs do you think have ever been exploded - 50, 100, 200?.
Kites
Simply the best.
Some of the nicest kites you can buy.
The Gone with the Wind kite forum is probably the busiest of the many out there.
Kites and parts by mail order. If you want it, they've got it.
Master kite maker Masami Takakuwa's authoritative site on all aspects of Japanese kites.
Listings for all UK and many European kites festivals.
The on-line kite magazine.
The busiest of the UK based kite forums.
Sport Team and Competitive Kiting's UK website.
London's only kite festival.
One of the longest established specialist kite shops in the UK.
Live wind and weather data.
Kite designer and bridle guru.
Useful Stuff
Get rid of all Spyware and tracking cookies from your PC.
The best FTP programme for the PC (and now for the Mac, too).
Still the best (x)HTML editor available - despite not having been updated since September 2003.
Clean the spam from your email without having to see it first. Now available for Mac OSX and various flavours of Linux as well.
Pantone to RGB
Due to legal reasons, my conversion tables for Pantone® to RGB are no longer available.
Some of the best Dreamweaver extensions available and much more.
My own test card to help you set up your monitor correctly.
Tests in (x)HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various other bits and pieces - some my own, some reworkings of other peoples'.
Points to pixels (and ems and %) conversion table.
The fonts that you can expect most people to have on their PCs (and most Macs).