William Leininger's home page

Originally, this was a place holder. Now, it's just a thinly disguised way to avoid waiting for Mozilla to parse all my Internet Explorer bookmarks.

Other Pages

• My works
• Interesting techie webpages
• Musings
• Gas Prices around Chicagoland

Places you should be looking at instead of here:

• The 'Net

  • I'm fascinated by all the weird equipment that has started to be connected to the net. A well maintained list of Internet connected machines (especially cameras) can be found on bsy's List of Internet Accessible Machines .
    
  • Originally, my favorite search engine was Lycos at CMU. Since it came out, however, a number of rivals have appeared on the scene, and I find that Google has surpassed the rest. (For one thing, it doesn't have a lot of superfluous stuff!)

  • For news about the net, and computing in general, you can't beat Slashdot and Wired.
  • But, if you're like me, what you're really after is gossip. Try Robert Cringely, the other Robert Cringely, or that darned Katt.

• Space

  
  • As an amateur astronomy buff, I find the Sky & Telescope weekly news bulletin useful.
    
  • I'm also a satellite watcher, so here's a link to explain what that's all about. (The image to the right is satellite, passing near M27. It's not mine, but I did do some image processing on it.)
    
  • As a long time space buff, I heartily recommend Jonathan's Space Report.

• The Mac

  • I develop software for the Macintosh, so here are some resources related to that:
    • For news, try TidBITS, or MacInTouch, or MacNN.
    • I used to list ramtracker, but the version I linked to stopped updating. Try RAMWatch.
    • If you're looking for a faster Mac, but don't want to look farther than your own desk, you could try Clock Chipping. But this is not for the timid.
    • Apple's documentation of how programs figure out what features are present on the Mac they are running on tends to be scattered and incomplete. Into this gap leaps René G.A. Ros' Gestalt Selector List.

• Entertainment

  While working on a project, there usually isn't too much time for anything except work. What little entertainment I get tends to be movies.
  • So here's an extensive database of info on released films.
  • And a link to my favorite local cheap theater, as $7 is almost always too much to pay for a movie
  • Apart from movies, I tend to read, which is getting to be an expensive habit. Here's one of my favorite book stores, The Stars Our Destination, in Evanston, Illinois, but they also do mail order.