VICNET Zine, March 2000
1 - COMEDY FESTIVAL 2 - TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH VICNET 3 - VICNET ARTS DOMAIN 4 - CONTENT REGULATION 5 - ALCOHOL RELATED BRAIN INJURY 6 - VICNET COMMUNITY WEBRING 7 - NEW COMMUNITY SITES ON VICNET 8 - ST PATRICKS DAY March 17 9 - FESTIVALS 10 - MDAEMON 3.0 NOW AVAILABLE! 11 - USING CASCADING STYLE SHEETS 12 - OLYMPIC SITES 13 - CLICK HERE
1 - COMEDY FESTIVAL 30 March - 23 April, 2000 Looking for a laugh? Then look here and search for a show: http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/ Australia's most popular and dynamic annual arts festival featuring more than 160 shows (over 2000 performances) in 25 days. VICNET is proud to be a major sponsor of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. VICNET provides all the Internet requirements for the 2000 Festival.
2 - TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH VICNET The ever-popular VICNET Travel site is now updated: http://www.vicnet.net.au/travel Visit the Victoria, Australia and World travel sections and also the following categories: Accommodation, Culture, Dining, Entertainment, Maps, Recreation, Regions, Resources, Sights, Scenic Tours, Transport, Travel Agents, Weather, Whats On.
3 - VICNET ARTS DOMAIN VICNET Arts Domain section - more updates soon! http://www.vicnet.net.au/arts Includes sites on these topics: Architecture, Artists, Ceramics, Cinema, Crafts, Culture, Heritage, Dance, Fashion, History, Libraries, Literature, Music, Opera, Theatre.
4 - CONTENT REGULATION The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999 became effective on January 1, 2000. In accordance with amended Australian Government legislation, Vicnet is now obliged to notify users within Australia about issues relating to Internet content. VICNET's Response to the Legislation http://www.vicnet.net.au/legal/regulation.htm Also see the VICNET Net Censorship page: http://www.vicnet.net.au/issues/censorship.htm Complaints to ABA http://www.aba.gov.au/what/online/complaints.htm
5 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG RELATED BRAIN INJURY VICNET has recently designed this site: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~arbias/ to assist health care workers working with sufferers of Alcohol (and Drug) Related Brain Injury (ARBI). ARBIAS is a specialist non-government agency providing a range of services to people with acquired brain injury, pdominately caused by alcohol or other substances. ARBIAS aims to assist people disabled through acquired brain injury to live and function to their full potential in the community. The site conforms with accessibility standards set by W3C and also uses Style Sheets (CSS). Why not check your Website here: http://validator.w3.org/
6 - VICNET COMMUNITY WEBRING Current ring members include: Popular Culture Appciation Society http://home.vicnet.net.au/~popcult/ Celebrating all aspects of popular culture in all its forms Kew Neighbourhood House http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kewch/ "committed to bringing our local community together" Haemophilia Foundation Victoria http://home.vicnet.net.au/~haemvic/ Information on haemophilia and von Willebrand's disorder Gannawarra Shire Council http://www.murraylink.vic.gov.au/gannawarra/ Gannawarra Library Service is a small but vibrant library service in Northern Victoria Southern Africa Safari http://go.to/africa See the animals and scenery of Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe Join with other community sites on VICNET by forming a ring of Websites: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~webring/
7 - NEW COMMUNITY SITES ON VICNET Darwin Defenders 1942 -45 Inc http://www.vicnet.net.au/~darwin42/ Australian Wartime History Association of Tourist Railways Inc. (Vic.) http://www.vicnet.net.au/~atr/ pserving Heritage Railways in Victoria Wildlife Art Society of Australasia Inc http://www.vicnet.net.au/~wildlife/ Fostering the study, practice, and appciation of Wildlife art in all media, to encourage the exchange of ideas and experience in this field, and to promote the work of Wildlife Artists. Malvern Artists Society http://www.vicnet.net.au/~malvart/ The oldest known Art Society in the Malvern area. Hand Tool pservation Association of Australia http://www.vicnet.net.au/~toolclub/ A heritage group that provides a forum for discussing traditional tools and the way in which artisans of the past worked with these tools, recognising the skill and ingenuity of their efforts. Morris Minor Car Club of Victoria http://www.vicnet.net.au/~mmccv/ Fosters the pservation and active use of all models of Morris Minors produced after 1948 and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, general technical information and advice, and to hold a variety of motoring and social activities.
8 - ST PATRICKS DAY March 17 St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain, around 389. When he was 16, he was sold into slavery to Ireland where he was a shepherd for 6 years. While in captivity he studied and turned to religion. He escaped slavery and later returned to Ireland as a missionary, determined to convert Ireland to Christianity. He used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity. He was ordained as Bishop of Ireland in 431. He was able to secure tolerance for Christians in Ireland during his life there. He is said to have died in 461 and to be buried in Downpatrick. St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin was built in the 12th Century. He is also said to have drummed the snakes from Ireland and into the sea. http://www.st-patricks-day.com/
9 - FESTIVALS BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL http://www.brunswickmusicfestival.com.au/ March 15 - April 2 APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL http://home.vicnet.net.au/~apollotc/Festival.htm March 24 - 26 QUEENSCLIFFE'S CARNIVAL OF WORDS http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/slv/events/queenscliff/ Words, Books, Ideas and Images Saturday 18 March 2000 BAYSIDE FESTIVAL http://www.come.to/baysidefestival March 17 - 19, 2000 Art Show, Baby Show, Bands, Car Show, Concert, Fireworks, Homecrafts Show, Hootenanny, Jazz in the Park, Pantomime, Parade, Spaghetti eating, Youth Art Show
10 - MDAEMON 3.0 NOW AVAILABLE! MDaemon 3.0 is designed to meet all your LAN and Internet Email needs using a single POP3 account. MDaemon comes complete with a powerful set of integrated tools for managing Email accounts and message formats: http://www.vicnet.net.au/products/mdaemon.htm
11 - USING CASCADING STYLE SHEETS A cascading style sheet is a separate HTML file that keeps track of design and format information such as the colours, fonts, font sizes, and margins you use in your help files or Web pages. By linking your HTML files to a cascading style sheet, you can easily create a consistent design for all of your files. More information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/chm/htcss.htm Style Sheet resource page at the W3C: http://www.w3.org/Style/ Rich in Style http://www.richinstyle.com/ Examples of pages that use Style Sheets on VICNET are: VICNET Interactive http://www.vicnet.net.au/interactive/ this covers: Chat - Forum - Cams - Guestbook - Newsgroups - Sites ARBIAS http://home.vicnet.net.au/~arbias/
12 - OLYMPIC SITES Sydney Olympics 2000 - The Official Site of the 2000 Olympics: 15 September - 1 October http://www.olympics.com/ Sydney 2000 Paralympic site - The Official Site of the 2000 Paralympics. http://www.olympics.com/eng/paralympics/ The Paralympic movement celebrates its 40th anniversary at the 2000 Games in Sydney. To be held from 18 to 29 October 2000 The Olympic Club has been created to ensure that all Australians can share both in the spirit and the rewards of the 2OOO Olympic Games http://www.theolympicclub.com.au/home.html Australian Olympic Committee http://www.australian.olympic.org.au/ Bureau of Meteorology's Olympics 2000 Weather Support pages provide detailed information on climate patterns in Sydney during the Olympic period. http://www.bom.gov.au/info/wmd/olympic/ Sport and Recreation Victoria http://www.sport.vic.gov.au/ The Sydney Morning Herald Olympic Countdown site offering latest news, jobs info, tickets, schedule and visitors info. http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/ ABC Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics site offering news, venues and archived information http://www.abc.net.au/news/olympics/ SKYCAM Australia Site hosts the aerial photographs of the Sydney 2000 sites at Olympic Site at Homebush Bay. http://www.skycam.com.au/ Greenpeace Australia Olympics page - environmental guidelines http://www.greenpeace.org.au/campaigns/olympics.htm
13 - CLICK HERE This is the spot where we hurl a few more URLs at you! Happy surfing! CLICK #1 - Evrsoft !st Page 2000 http://www.evrsoft.com/download/ Free HTML Editor CLICK #2 - SynEdit Text Editor and Programmers Tool http://mkidesign.com/synedit/ Free HTML Editor CLICK #3 - Homesite 4.5 http://www.allaire.com/products/homesite/ Not-Free HTML Editor... but excellent! CLICK #4 - The Diversity Victoria Campaign http://diversity.vicnet.net.au Celebrating our State of Diversity CLICK #5 - GST in the News http://au.dailynews.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Australian_Tax_Debate/ CLICK #6 - Victorian Events Database http://events.vicnet.net.au/ Add your event online!
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