The Bodger’s Home Page, Association of Pole-Lathe Turners

With reasonably detailed plans for a pole-lathe, as well as other resources and stuff.

Robin Wood, Bowlturner: traditional woodware and specialist archaeological replicas.

Treadle-lathe, bowl turning. Some photos

XPath Tutorial

I had a feeling there was a shallower learning curve to xpath than the w3 docs implied and sure enough. This is a series of simple examples that illustrate the basic xpath concepts and syntax, that even I could follow.

HTMLDOC - Easy Software Products

Handy to have..command line html -> pdf conversion.

perl html parser example

at perl monks

Perl proxy servers

Useful list at http://www.ijs.co.nz/sorm.htm in particular:

http://theory.stanford.edu/~dabo/proxy/index.html

http://packetstorm.securify.com/UNIX/utilities/log-proxy.pl

Greymatter - Weblog/Journal Software

CGI & flat-file based blog software that sounds good. I may migrate over if it checks out.

This to That (Glue Advice)

I love it. I whole site devoted to sticking things together.

The home page is a simple pair of dropdowns to get a recommendation for glueing [this] to [that].
Each adhesive has a basic fact sheet, with tips, toxicity, dry time etc.

Text-only Salon

More mediator type stuff. With source code provided. This is a simple one, but it works so….

A Bookmark Manager Roundup

Ah. That’s what you call them. I like backflip etc., but I’d feel happier if it all lived on my own server.