The Online World resources handbook

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The Online World resources handbook
Chapter 5:
Home, education and work
House, garden and finances
Buying computers and stuff
Education, teaching and the exchange of
knowledge
Language learning
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Gateways to knowledge
Parenthood
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House, garden and finances
Watch your
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Religion
Philosophy, etc.
Job hunting
Homeowners are logging on to solve their household problems. They check into conferences, forums,
newsgroups, and mailing lists for feedback from contractors, architects, and fix it experts on anything
from broken ceiling fans and whistling dryers to rotting decks and other annoyances. They're seeking
advice on anything related to house, garden, and finances.
The CHIMNEYS L mailing list is about chimney maintenance. Topics of interest include fire
prevention, safety issues, new products, trouble shooting, cleaning technics, and anything you can
think of about the chimney cleaning industry.
The newsgroup misc.consumers.house on Usenet is where you can discuss anything related to
owning and maintaining a house. For antiques, join a newsgroup in the rec.antiques hierarchy.
Several software libraries offer shareware and public domain programs to help you plan and
maintain your house.
There are also personal inventory programs (to help you keep track of belongings), and
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Other programs will help you prepare tax return forms, plan next year's taxes, calculate interests
and down payments on your loans, and do double entry money management (personal book keeping
and checkbook balancing).
To succeed as a private investor, the experts say, you must have a strategy that is appropriate
to your unique circumstances, resources for keeping up to date on investment options, and tools for
managing the process of investing. It sure is an information intensive activity and a constant learning
process that requires the up to date, exhaustive, and anecdotal information that online services are
perfectly suited to meet.
Usenet has several newsgroups under the misc.invest hierarchy. Browse them at Google
Groups.
House is also home. To bring more "life" into life, some devote themselves to fashion. For links
to fashion related Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists, visit http://members.tripod.com/~cjlutz
/Usenet.html.
Others consider adopting a child. For information and experiences, check out the ADOPTION
mailing list.
Then there is television. The Interactive Satellite Chart covers all satellite TV channels
worldwide with links to broadcasters' home pages.
Select your region of world for a list of reachable satellites. The regions are (1) Europe, Africa
and Middle East, (2) North and South America, (3) Asia and South Pacific. Click on a satellite, like
Hispasat at 30 degrees W, for a list of TV channels with frequencies, Web links, encoding schemes (if
any), sound frequencies, and TV text information.
Some sample TV station pages:
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