Links you might care to visit

Public service information

• Canada's official National Do Not Call List, to stop telemarketing calls from within Canada
• Canada Post’s Name and Address Database, to opt out from receiving addressed advertising mail delivered by Canada Post
• CMA Do Not Contact Service, to stop receiving more addressed advertising mail delivered by Canada Post
• Red Dot Campaign, to stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail delivered by Canada Post - disappeared
• Canada's Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act, if you conspicuously publish your e-mail address then you have granted implied consent to receive SPAM

• Canadian Alliance of British Pensioners, lobbies to end freezing of pension payments
• TV-B-Gone, a remote control which powers off all TVs
• No Software Patents!
• E-mail SPAM and how to combat it
• Chain letter scams
• Craig, Ryan, and friends, the dying kids
• Urban Legends

• Virus hoaxes
• Genuine computer viruses

• Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathan Rauch
• Windows Vista Content Protection, "the longest suicide note in history"
• Don't use UPS to ship to Canada, use USPS instead

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The best things since sliced bread

• Find-The-Spam
• "My hovercraft is full of eels" in many languages
• Large Canadian Roadside Attractions
• B Movie Reviews
• Hitchhiker's Adventure Game

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Fiction at its best

• The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

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Warn your children!

• Life of a SysAdmin by Tom Farrell
• Bastard Operator from Hell
• The Dilbert Zone - disappeared

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☯ Religious interlude ☯

• Information on Taoism - disappeared
• Tao Te Ching, list of translations - disappeared

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Information

• Dmoz Open Directory Project Web site list - disappeared
• Google search engine

• Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer
• Sam Spade Internet tools - disappeared
• DomainTools
• RWhois Registry Referral Query Service (use Query: "IP <hostname>" or "MX <hostname>") - disappeared
• RWhois Web Interface (use Query: "IP <hostname>" or "MX <hostname>")

• USA Patent and Trademark Office
• Google Patent Search
• FreePatentsOnline

• Sensitive map of UK academic institutions

• Public holidays in Canada
• Canadian, British and American Spelling
• Road maps of Canada
• Canada Post

• Calgary weather from Environment Canada
• Calgary Transit
• A Brief History of Programmes, Services and Organizations for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Adults in Calgary, a free book

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Web development

• W3C Markup Validation Service, for HTML, etc
• HTML Validator / Linter
• W3C CSS Validation Service
• CSS Lint
• JSLint, a JavaScript syntax checker and validator
• ESLint, an open source JavaScript lint
• JSHint, a static code analysis tool for JavaScript
• PHP Code Checker
• Microformats validators
• Link Checker

• HTML 4.01 Specification
• Character entity references in HTML 4
• HTML5
• HTML5 differences from HTML4
• Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
• Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification
• Microformats, for a semantic Web
• Microdata for HTML5, for a semantic Web

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Miscellany

• FreeFind, a search engine
• Home Office Networks, Frisco, Texas
• Win9x Batch Programs by Eric Phelps
• Online-Convert, a free online file convertor
• O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher of computer books
• AbeBooks, Canada, a used bookseller
• Filewatcher File Search, for files on anonymous FTP sites - disappeared

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My Webpages

Local

• Martin Leese's Web page ...

My Epizy pages

• Marvin, the Paranoid Android: The Audio Files ...
• Ambisonic Surround Sound: Decoders ...
• IMF Electronics decoder (and recordings)
• Minim decoders
• My Temporary Downloads ...

My Flickr albums

• My photo albums (and videos) ...