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Canning, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nova Scotia's Electronic Attic
Specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Online
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Kings-Hants Byelection, Nova Scotia, 11 September 2000
The Search Warrant, 22 September 2000
Nova Scotia's Electronic Garrett Another website specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia
Parade of Sail Images Chebucto Community Net's Tall Ship Image Archive from the Fenwick Place Webcam, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2000
Nova Scotia Webcams
Quotations about Nova Scotia, or by or about Nova Scotians
Little-Known Portions of Nova Scotia History
Spurgeon G. Roscoe's book Radio Stations Common? Not This Kind
Nova Scotia's Telegraphs, Landlines And Cables 1938, by D.G. Whidden
History of Electric Companies in Nova Scotia
History of Telephone Companies in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Schools on the Internet
Westray Mine Disaster, 9 May 1992
Westray Mine Public Inquiry 1995-96, online transcript
Excellent Satellite View of the Bay of Fundy
Charles Dickens' Description of the Nova Scotia Legislature
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Atlantic Model Engineering Society formerly the Heat Engine Association of Nova Scotia |
1999 was the 150th anniversary of the 1849 Nova Scotia pony express
Old
Scotland
UARB Power Failure Report The official report of the Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board, requested by Premier Russell MacLellan, "into the manner in which Nova Scotia Power Inc. provided service to its customers during Power Outages occurring on its System during the months of November and December 1997."
Where is Canning?
Good map of Kings County showing Canning, Wolfville, Kentville...
Halls Harbour at high tide the ocean rises 11 metres 35 feet above low tide...
Nova Scotia Government
NovaSource: Information about the Government of Nova Scotia The first edition of NovaSource has chapters for 17 Departments, 18 Public Service bodies, and 24 Agencies, Boards and Commissions (this section also includes tribunals, associations, authorities and foundations), as well as references to many others...
Orders in Council
The Premier's Expense Account, 1996
The Premier's Expense Account, 1995
Opposition Leader's Expense Account, 1996
Opposition Leader's Expense Account, 1995
Legal Fees Paid to Firms Representing Victims of Institutional Abuse
Injustice Busters – Nova Scotia pages
Map of Nova Scotia the best on-line map of Nova Scotia that I know of
Maps of federal electoral districts in Nova Scotia
Pictures of Technology-Related Subjects
Photograph of my workplace at 3 am, 10 January 1997
Spring Equinox dates and times of day, for a thousand years
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Electronic Frontier Canada |
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Blue Ribbon Campaign |
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Anyone With A Modem Now Can Participate This Changes Everything ...Exalted minds don't appear to have a clue what this Internet's going to do; what we're going to make of it -- what this is all going to turn into. But I have glimpses. And sometimes deep in the middle of the night I tell them to Bill Paley. We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be. The difference between the Internet, television and radio, magazines, newspapers is the two-way communication. The Net gives as much voice to a 13-year-old computer geek like me as to a CEO or speaker of the House. We all become equal. And you would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows. From a little corner in my apartment, in the company of nothing more than my 486 computer and my six-toed cat, I have consistently been able to break big stories, thanks to this network of ordinary guys... And this is something new. This marks the first time that an individual has access to the news wires outside of the newsroom. You get to read all the news from the Associated Press, UPI, Reuters, to the more arcane Agence France Presse... And time was only newsrooms had access to the full pictures of the day's events, but now any citizen does. We get to see the kinds of cuts that are made for all kinds of reasons; endless layers of editors with endless agendas changing bits and pieces, so by the time the newspaper hits your welcome mat, it had no meaning. Now, with a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world -- no middle man, no big brother. And this changes everything... [Excerpted from the speech Anyone With a Modem Can Report On The World, delivered by Matt Drudge to the National Press Club, Washington, on 2 June 1998. Complete text of the speech.] |
Internet Traffic Report
Search Engine Watch a great place to keep an eye on what's happening in this important part of the Web...
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Google Search Engine 560,000,000 webpages indexed, as of June 2000
[I get consistently better results from Google than from any other search service.] Google ignores common words and characters, known as stop words. Google automatically disregards such terms as "http" and "com," as well as single letters and certain single digits, because these terms rarely help narrow a search, and can slow down searching significantly. Use the "+" symbol to include stop words in your search. Be sure to include a space before the "+" symbol. You can also include the "+" symbol in phrase searches. For example, to search for George V, enter Sometimes it is helpful to choose certain words or phrases to exclude from a search; you want all relevant results except those containing a certain word or phrase. Google supports this "not" functionality with the minus symbol ("-"). Use the minus symbol to purposefully exclude a term from your search. Be sure to include a space before the minus symbol and Google will ignore all pages containing that word. For example, to search for pages about bass but not speaker systems, enter Special Search Function: The query link: (followed by a URL) shows you all the backlinks for a given URL – that is, what pages point to that URL. For example, |
Maple Square "All-Canadian content Internet directory." Maple Square claims to be the largest and most accurate Canadian Internet Directory available.
Canada.com (Southam Inc.) The Canada.com search engine is a disappointment. When you ask it to search Canadian sites only, it confines its search to sites with the .ca extension, ignoring thousands of Canadian pages with top-level domain names ending in .com, .gov, .edu, and .net.
WebCityCanada WebCity Canada is an Internet navigator "which is designed to assist its users to locate and explore Canadian resources on the Internet more efficently..."
CanadaOne Canadian business
Special Search Engines, Directory This is a list of search engines for locating information by specific topics/subjects or by geographical groupings. One of the best resources for finding specialized search engines. These specialized search engines go a considerable distance toward making the Internet a less-difficult place to find what you want.
SavvySearch Metasearch the major search engines and guides...
BookFinder By far the best way I've found to find secondhand books online. A test run to find any book by L.T.C. Rolt (the great historian of technology) turned up at least five times as many books as I had ever before been able to locate.
HotBot
Lycos
InfoSeek
AltaVista
AltaVista (Canada) only indexes websites stored on servers located within
Canada. [Thus AltaVista (Canada)'s claim to be a valid index to Canadian content on the WWW is, at best, misleading. There are many websites with Canadian content, which run on servers located outside Canada's borders, and AltaVista (Canada) arbitrarily excludes all of these. Not to mention that a website that has non-Canadian content but which happens to run on a server located within Canada, will be included.]
EuroFerret index of over 30 million European Web Pages, many of which do not appear in the usual North American indexes.
Web Wombat 2,700,000 Australian webpages
Instant Sample of what other people are looking for on the Internet, right this very second. Each download brings a fresh sample.
Background information on search engines, etc.
Internet Search Engine Comparison, 7 July 1999
W3C HTML Validation Service
http://validator.w3.org/
W3C CSS Validation Service
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/