Learning with the Fang

UPDATE #2:
Mandy saw Miles yesterday and reports that even amid some very nasty swelling things continue to progress well.  The swelling is likely to get worse before it gets better and there is some risk of seizures, so it is best not to try and visit the hospital until further notice.  Will update this post [...]

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Ah, ya gotta love the Aussie summer.

Because of unusual numbers of large white pointer sharks at the beach near my home I have been sailboarding at a place called Boggy Lake the last few months. It is over an hours drive, and you never go there alone in case of a bite from the [...]

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While messing around with some flickr and photoshop mashups for Beth Kanter’s 50th birthday ‘competition’ I got to thinking…
Thinking about ways to run ‘competitions’ where the aim is to maximise the amount of recognition for every single ‘contestant’.

You see, recogniton is a key pillar of the LearnDog vision – we have often thought about being [...]

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Snuck up on me while I wasn’t looking.
Last time I sat here in front of my computer was a few days before Christmas.  Since then I have spent many pleasant and almost timeless days with friends and family – far from the ‘lure of the inbox, RSS tap or any other form of information delivered [...]

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