Yep, it's me. This was taken by Kris P, at Asquith Boys', using a digital camera.
Greetings from sunny downtown Hornsby Heights, in northern Sydney, NSW, Australia.
I enjoy Electronics, Amateur Radio, Photography and playing around with computers / Internet.
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My amateur callsign is VK2YJS. My main interests are 6m, 2m, 70 cm and 23cm FM voice. I occasionally use 2m SSB. The all-important "smoke" got out of my 10m set, so might be a while before I am back to 10m FM. I should do more packet. For this I use Baycom and a home-built modem on 2m. I am a member of NZART, New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters; the ARRL, The American Radio Relay League; and HADARC, the Hornsby and Districts Amateur Radio Club. | |
I'm a member of WICEN NSW Inc, previously called the Wireless Institute Civil Emergency Network. This is an organisation of trained volunteers who use amateur radio and other resources to provide communications support to other emergency services during disasters. WICEN also provides communications for many community and sporting events. WICEN has been activated for a number of recent disasters.
I've written a guide to Broadcasts in English which can be heard in Europe using an "ordinary" mediumwave or "AM" radio.
I have recently completed the Diploma in Library and Information Services at TAFE. I have a background in the electronics and radio communications industries. I hold a Broadcast Operators Certificate (BOCP).
If you are looking for staff please visit http://www.sortland.co.uk.
My new Social Justice Links page at: http://www.zeta.org.au/~julian/social.html
For information about this Maritime Mobile DX-pedition to Vanuatu, QSL details and the Island Mercy CLICK HERE!
 | Offical site for Steve Bevis, a Sydney based Rock & Roll musician. Read about his new double album, "Put out the Sun / Hold up the Sky". My old page for Steve and The Bright Side. |
Visit my Mum's page! Pictures may take some time to load.
Visit my Dad's homepage and find out about his new book!
Church: I attend Turramurra Uniting Church and St. Peters Anglican Church in Hornsby.
TUC runs frequent Alpha courses (see below).
A number of the churches in the Hornsby area run the "Women's Supper Escape", an occasional night of entertainment, coffee, dessert and friendship.. Click here for details.
My Events page.
Various collections of my photographs.
Click here to find out about about AGFA Scala 200 B&W Slide film.
My Edlin page! About the original DOS text editor. For fun, history and education?
Visit my GST free Virtual Bookshop!
New Music, Gift and Specialist Sections.
 | Travelling? Visit my Virtual Travel Agency. |
Sortland mailing list on Yahoo Groups at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sortland. I suggest you set all the "marketing options" to no/off.
Plus the new site - http://www.sortland.emu.id.au
Cool-Hebraica. http://www.cool-hebraica.com.
Want to know more about Christianity? Try an Alpha course. Find out more, including course locations in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. For other countries visit the UK site, or email national offices in Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kenya, Norway, Singapore, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Another, general page is at: http://members.iinet.net.au/~nosnikta/alpha. Also, visit Holy Trinity, Brompton, where the programme started.
Tear Fund. Main Australian site, and the Leave your mark youth site.
If you donate, remember that the amout is in Australian Dollars, so think of how many US$ you want to give and double it, or pounds and multiply by 2.7.
Buy "Worship to live by" by Steve Bevis and other cool stuff on Tear's secure server! Prices are in A$, so the CD is very good value for those overseas! A$20 is about US$11, or £7.50. You can also add a tax-deductible donation for the above, noting the use under comments.
Visit Ellen Stanford's very cool Webkin site at http://www.webkin.co.uk. She is 21 and lives in Bath, England.
She also runs: Pen-Pal World and ME Awareness.
For residential, retirement or commercial property in this area (upper North Shore / upper Hills district) or Mosman / lower North Shore visit Chain Real Estate.
Now Telstra's fine AMPS (Analogue) mobile network has been destroyed, you need to find out about CDMA.
Find out about Native Title, Wik and Coexistence on ANTaR's website at http://www.antar.org.au/.
Find Bono and The Edge at the Sea of Hands.
ATPS - Australian Technical Production Services - for all your PA and equipment servicing needs.
KJØKKENKROKEN "Kitchen Corner" - My half brother's kitchenware shop.
Australian White Pages Page. Graphics or Text only, and Yellow Pages. (Not "yellowpages.com", like a "Ziggy Stardust" said.)
Norwegian Yellow Pages in English, Norwegian (Bokmċl) or "New Norwegian" (Nynorsk).
Yellow Pages for Israel in English or send an Israeli company a fax from this site.
Or try Sutherland Library's directories list.
Read the Bible online - King James Version.
Four 11 Internet White Pages. Find email addresses.
DEETYA, the department that ran the CES until the current conservative government destroyed it, still has Online Jobsearch pages. Centrelink has a Contact Us page so you can type a short message and have them call you instead of waiting in a telephone queue.
Zeta / Kralizec My Internet Service Provider. Membership forms can be downloaded. (Please write "julian@zeta.org.au" in the "Introduced by" field!)
Hate paying fees to big banks and their rich shareholders? So do I, which is why I use a building societies.
Greater Building Society, Maitland Mutual Building Society, or view a list of Societies.
Read my comments on alternative shopping in the Hornsby region, if you don't like paying parking fees. Plus construction in Hornsby and Sydney.
Talking about money, get a font containing the new euro symbol here (for earlier Windows, etc).
FEBC - Far East Broadcasting Company, a Christian radio broadcaster.
Kean Electronics for embedded controller design, programming, PocketPC and Cactus. Cactus (now Adept Terminal Emulation) is a flexible terminal program for Windows 3.1 and '95/NT/etc. It supports direct connection, modem and WinSock (for Telnet), with features including file transfer and scrolling. This is acheived in a small and easy to use package. It is marketed by Adept Business Systems.
For photographs and information on Australian and South American lighthouses visit Grant & Tracy's Lighthouse Pages - Part of Maizels.NU, the site for Maizels everywhere!
My Lighthouse pages.
For your Computer Aided Design needs, including AutoCAD, plus training and support, visit: CABS-CAD.
Some of the world's best professional power amplifiers are made here in Australia by Australian Monitor.
The Maritime Union of Australia site has a nautical theme, with information on a number of topics including Australian ports, maritime history and "Ships of Shame".
Want to save some money on your phone calls? See my page of: Telstra's Big Secrets (or things their managers don't promote too well...)
The US TV ads in which Apple's G3 toasts the Pentium II seem to dissapeared from their server... :(
An old friend's company, NUMA- National Underwater and Marine Agency Pty Ltd. Great photo's.
Visit Logan and Rodd & Gunn for great sport and casual clothing at http://www.loganyatching.com.
Get Trillian at http://www.trillian.cc - the ultimate client for ICQ, Y!, MSN, AIM and IRC.
A couple of interesting ICQ groups: YL-Net, Radio Hobbies (for Women) and Women in or interested in Antarctica.
I have a HP 12C calculator - get the original gold one, not the "Platinum"! A great calc!
Phil Bruce's site.
Some cool car pages:
Web pages are constructed from specially formatted text files, which contain the text on the page plus instructions to your browser on how to display this text, and generally directions to it on how to display one or more images. While you can use a range of programs to automatically generate these special text files, you can easily write them using a basic text editor. Notepad in Windows in is fine, but Notespad (notice the "s" in the middle) from Bremer Corporation is better.
I recommend the "NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML". NCSA is the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, at the University of Illinois. Go to http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html, select the full version (rather than the 3 part one), then save it (and the little graphic used for inline graphic examples, although it works without this). You can now read it offline, and refer to it whenever you need.
You could also try HTML Pocket Reference by Jennifer Niederst.
The reviewer started: "The author of the best-selling Web Design in a Nutshell, Jennifer Niederst, delivers a concise guide to every HTML tag in this pocket reference...".
You can buy the 92 page 2nd edition in paperback for US$8.95. Just click here.
If writing HTML in a text editor isn't your idea of fun, then Dreamweaver is probably one of the better packages. Students, teachers, etc can purchase at special academic prices.
Once you have written it, you need an FTP (File Transfer protocol) client that is able to "put" files onto a server. Browsers can download files from FTP sites, but not put them up. WS-FTP from ftp://ftp1.ipswitch.com, or via TuCows is good. Generally your ISP (Internet Co.) provides you with a good chunk of web space as part of your access deal.
Low cost domains. http://www.gandi.net. Only 12 euros!
AUNIC. Get a NIC handler. Find out who owns a ".au" domain name. Links to a list containing the domain name registries for every nation or entity.
"We believe OS/2 is the platform for the '90s."
Bill Gates addressing COMDEX '89.
Hear it: os2.wav. See it: bgates.avi (1.85MB, may need OS/2).
Count by: Web-Counter.
Written by Julian Sortland, © January 2004.
Maintained using Notespad, an advanced, multi-window text editor.