Thumbs up to Dean Allen @ textism.com for pointing out something I found once but ever since have been looking for.
Character Palette
Ever since moving from Windows to Mac OS X Tiger I’ve been missing the simplicity of the Character Map application (type ‘charmap’ in your Start -> Run dialogue). It’s not quite so easy to get to on the mac, which I think should probably be addressed, even searching for ‘character palette’ in Spotlight doesn’t throw it up.
As Dean (founder of my webhost Textdrive, now called Joyent) pointed out the Palette can be found by clicking the Keyboard Language icon (the flag beside the clock) and selecting ‘Character Palette.’