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Get a job
So, you've left University and you've got a CV bursting with enthusiasm, energy and raw talent. Then why haven't you go a job? Well, maybe because all those employers desperate for you don't know about you. That's where CVWeb comes in: it's a free database for CVs - add yours and update it as you like. It must work, Paul Evans who started the service got his job through it.
CvWeb: http://cvweb.aston.ac.uk All men must die There's a problem on this planet: men. And Kashka wants to get rid of it. Her pictorial essay on the subject is hard hitting: a dead man on a street, the beg-like-a-dog please-spare-my-life forum and, best of all, one hundred ways to keep your testosterone flowing (aka "how to be a man"). And who is Kashka? In her own words, "I'm not a lesbian. Just very very unfortunate... " http://www.kfs.org/~kashka/ammd.html Designed in Heaven Heaven is what happens when you get a graphic designer on the web. Jason has pages on Dogs of Heaven, a performance company which wowed several thousand people with huge models, fire and rockets and Homes for Change, a housing and workspace development in Manchester. http://www.u-net.com/heaven/ So, you want to be a writer? Remember those crummy ads at the bottom of newspaper pages, Send a check for £15 and learn how to be a writer? Well forget them. Turn to Bricolage instead. First off, it's free. Secondly, it is updated every month. Thirdly, it carries a pretty comprehensive collection of material from reviews of software for writers to copyright issues on the Internet. http://bel.avonibp.co.uk/bricolage/ Don't forget to flush Here's a handy hint. If you're stuck out in Melbourne, desperate for the loo, avoid the toilet blocks in Bendigo (there are no toilet seats and the doors don't lock). Better are the railway station toilets, which are large and open, even if they do smell of chlorine. All this and more, thanks to the in Depth Guide to Victoria's Public Toilets. http://minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au/~s9507658/toilet/index.html Dynamic Number Seven If you want to find out who or what owns a particular domain name Ñ and you might even have a legitimate reason to want to know Ñ the best way to do this is to use a set of arcane Un*x commands like nslookup and whois. Until now, that is. Thansk to a nifty Web interface you can now get the answers to all these queries and more as easy as point-and-click. You don't even need to know what DNS stands for. http://http.demon.net/external/ntools.html OneWorld Spend a couple of hours on Oneworld Online and you'll think the world is the most awful place on, well, earth. Picture essays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, horrifying tales from Bosnia and scenes of utter misery from Rwanda aren't the stuff dreams are made of. But Oneworld Online must be one of the most positive servers on the Web. Launched by Terry Waite, it is devoted to sustainable development and enviromental management. It works as a clearing house for film-makers, magazines and relief organisations, providing a wealth of details about campaigns, current events and more. http://www.oneworld.org Dictionary So, you still don't know what DNS stands for. Look no further than the free online dictionary of computing. It's a brilliant working example of how a hypertext databse can work. It's also pretty comprehensive Ñ it certainly contains all the technical terms I know. http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/ Hard working, underslept Netsurf team: Azeem Azhar (azeem.azhar@guardian.co.uk) Paola Kathuria (paola@arcglade.demon.co.uk) Manar Hussian (manar@ivision.co.uk)
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