Nathan Oliver's

Personal WebSite
 
Here are links to some sites. The local links are mainly of interest to people around where I live, or who know me personally. The Global section is useful to anyone.
This is the part of my site most likey to have broken links. Because I don't visit all my links anymore, please Contact Me if you find a broken link.

Local Links

Links to sites of interest to people I know, or live close to me.

Online Friends' Sites/Blogs

Celticknotter's Celtic Inspiration
Lots about Celic Knotwork, and book reviews, and a forum.

Mini Velveteen Rabbitry
All about rabbitry, by Velvetrabbit. Also her personal page.

Psycho Dance Party
Brodieclerk's personal website, with a blog, his own comic strip (Bloblife), and a forum.

RL Friends' Sites/Blogs

Jason's Page (www.geocities.com/bboyscout04)
Jason has put together a webpage. Mainly pictures, but he continually is mentioning a re-design.

Logan T. Scott's Page (www.logantscott.tk)
Logan T. Scott's webpage. Several links, and some cool stuff. He has now switched servers.

The Official Lair (www.fawnrocks.blogspot.com)
Brionna's blog, best described in her own words: "Just little old me ranting on random things, including movies, music, crazy people, and Conan O'Brien. Enter the Lair if you dare...."

Sites of Local Places

A & J Select Market (www.ajmarket.com)
Website of A&J, the store where I work, and the only grocery store within miles of anywhere.

Stevenson High School
The website of Stevenson High School. Not much there, except the district calendar, but I feel like linking to it.

Technical Pursuit (www.technicalpursuit.com)
The website of my mentor's company. If you are interested in seeing the TIBET programming interface, click demo on the top bar, near the middle. It's better when viewed in Mozilla than Internet Explorer, but IE works OK. (Probably too technical for anyone without any experience with JavaScript.)

Global Links

Links of interest to anyone, regardless of if you know me, or live in the area.

College/Scholarship Related Sites

FastWeb (www.fastweb.com)
Site that lets you search through lots and lots of scholarships. A little heavy on the ads, but if you find even one scholarship to apply for, you can forgive them.

Dollarship (www.dollarship.com)
Kind of an interesting idea. They bill themselves as "The World's First Peer-to-Peer Scholarship". That basically means that when you apply, you send in a dollar, and they skim 50 cents off the top. The other 50 cents go to funding scholarships (they say). The way I figure it, 999 people are out $1 and 1 person gains $499. Sorry, I don't really like them, so I won't link to it.

How To's

HTML Goodies (www.htmlgoodies.com)
A very good resource for learning HTML, JavaScript, and many others.

PC Programs

Download.com (www.download.com)
Can find lots of useful programs for all platforms here. Heavy to shareware and fee-based programs, but you can filter by license type.
Some of the better ones availible there include:
  • Pocket Tanks
  • SmartFTP

Free Web Hosting

Having just been on a search for free web hosting, I thought I would link to some of the better ones I found.

Free Web Space (www.freewebspace.net)
Site where you can search among the sites that offer free web hosting. Allows you to sort by ammount of space offered. Also has reviews. (Thanks, Logan, for the link).

Geocities (www.geocities.com)
Decent host for basic web sites. My first host. Offers 15 mb, but upload can be tedious as site grows. Has popup ads, as well as a banner on the side. I later moved my site.

Angelfire (www.angelfire.com)
Another basic host. I tried them briefly, but they seem to be worse than Geocities, and the on-page ads are definately more annoying.

Aloof Hosting (www.aloofhosting.com)
Seem to be the best free server out there, and are my current host. Great place, 250 mb, lots of bandwidth, unique community in the Forum, very helpful. The only downside is that they don't allow zips, movies, or other non-website files. Pictures are ok. Even if I found a better place to host my site (which I haven't), I would probably stay here.

SiteSled (www.sitesled.com)
A notable free server. Apparently ad free, and offering large ammounts of space. Logan's site is there, and they allow media files, zips, movies, and other stuff. Here is where I park the files Aloof won't allow.

Photo Bucket (www.photobucket.com)
A site for hosting photos. Offers 100mb free, and claims more if a donation is made. ALLOWS you to direct link your photos. (That is, I can put them here, and link to them from elsewhere, and they don't mind. This is a GIANT plus for them.)

Miscellaneous Links

Wanderings (www.wanderingsonline.com)
My cousin Brendan's collection of Travel essays. He is a very good writer.

Teco's Photos of Madrid
A foreign exchange student who had lived with a friend of my Spanish teacher took several photos of the Peace March in Madrid after the bombing

Where's George (www.wheresgeorge.com)
A currency tracking site--take a dollar bill, enter the serial number into their database, and see where it turns up!