Using OneNote

There is a post about how to link from one place in OneNote to another (as opposed to a URL).

Common Craft - Online Community Strategies: Podcasting Buzz

Podcasting looks cool, but need to get an iPod first...

ic Southlondon - Architect George Lowe dies at 96

Architect of Whitgift School Swimming pool - George Lowe dies at 96

History of Hypertext - what a visionary!

Vannevar Bush outlined 'memex' - a hypertext-type concept in 1945. See History of Hypertext. What a visionary!

Must make a note of that...

"Must make a note of that" suggests two useful links:
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/4780 and http://www.craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt

The Internet And the Death Of 80/20

The Internet And the Death Of 80/20 is, as usual, from this blog, a very interesting article. Basically says that the internet has turned the 80-20 rule upside down and companies like Amazon are able to take you to lesser-known artists with their recommendations, listmania's etc. I had imagined that the opposite was happening because of the way so many internet sites have the 'top 10 hourly' type of lists (not just Amazon). With this, I assumed that it would tend to reinforce and amplify sales of the most popular things - a bit like the way people gather round a crowd in the street, wondering what it is that has brought the crowd there.

If this is true, then a lot more people will make money from their creative output (but just less of it). But that will help make a more equitable world.

Apollo Alliance : Apollo Alliance Featured in Don't Think of an Elephant

I like what I read in the newsletter I get from the Apollo Alliance - eg Don't Think of an Elephant and I need to read more of their stuff. Don't know if they have an equivalent here though?

Blog.org: E-commerce Archives

This post at blog.org is about a tool that creates an RSS feed based on changing prices of watched amazon items. The combination of the internet, broadband and rss-type technologies is going to produce some very interesting results. Currently there are a lot of middlemen making money out of matching people and products, but they are slowly going to get squeezed as this sort of technology takes hold. Ultimately this has to be a good thing in that people will get exactly what they want at the price they want and its going to be harder for people to become instant millionaires at the expense of others.

Air travellers asked to pay voluntarily for CO2 emissions

As Andii says in TheGreening: 09/01/2004 - 09/30/2004 it is no good asking people to volunteer to pay for CO2 emissions caused by their air-travel. a) they probably won't do it and b) what good would it do anyway?

A lot more work has to be done on finding schemes that require all of us to have a null effect on the environment. What is needed are schemes that tax 'pollution' - in the broadest sense of the word and similarly, credit back for pollution reduction.

Helping with homework

So I am trying to help my 13 year old with her maths and my 11 year old with chemistry. I have done both to A-level, but why do I find it so hard to help them. Is it because I am getting old? Is the understanding in there somewhere?

Why do we teach quadratic expressions and factorising. I could and can do them, but I am pushed to say why we do them?

Why are acids acids and why are alkalis alkalis? I used to know, but it just seems like a murky tunnel now.

Need to find out if there are any self-help forums for parents helping children through their homework?