Pesticides
Compendium of Pesticide Common Names
Nomenclature data for over 1800 active ingredients of pesticides, plus indexes of common names, systematic names, molecular formulae and CAS Registry Numbers, and a classification of pesticides. (Transferred to British Crop Production Council in 2021)- ISO/TC 81 website
Provisionally-approved ISO 1750 common names are announced on the News page. - ASA and ANSI K62 Pesticide Common Names
Table of all of the K62 names and their ISO 1750 equivalents
Microscopes and macro
Olympus OM system close-up and macro equipment
Original photographs, descriptions of the equipment, and reproductions of the instruction leaflets and manuals. (Updated 11th December 2025)- Olympus microscopes and photomicrographic equipment
Information on equipment for photomicrography with BH-2, CK2, IMT-2, SZ4045, SZH and older microscopes, and downloads of microscope catalogues and instructions. (Updated 12th February 2026) - Quekett Microscopical Club
The Club’s website was professionally designed, so my role as webmaster mostly involved learning WordPress, uploading content from old versions of the site and writing reports on meetings. - Alan Wood’s microscopical diary
Blog about my exploits in microscopy, photomicrography and macro photography. (Updated 15th January 2026)
Unicode
Alan Wood’s Unicode resources
Information about Web browsers, fonts, editors, word processors and various utilities that support Unicode, plus pages for most of the Unicode ranges that enable you to test your browsers and fonts. (Updated 12th January 2015)
Character entity references
Character entity references in HTML 4.01
An indexed list of the 252 named entities (for letters with diacritics, Greek letters and various special characters) that are supported in HTML 4.01.
Character sets
- Microsoft’s ANSI character set
- Apple’s MacRoman character set
- Differences between ANSI, ISO-8859-1 and MacRoman
- Microsoft’s Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
- Symbol font – Unicode alternatives for Greek and special characters in HTML
- Microsoft’s Webdings character set and Unicode equivalents
- Microsoft’s Wingdings character set and Unicode equivalents
- Microsoft’s Wingdings 2 character set and Unicode equivalents
- Microsoft’s Wingdings 3 character set and Unicode equivalents