Learning with the Fang

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A few days after ordering my ‘bloggers dozen‘ from kirrihill winery, this lovely parcel arrived on my doorstep. After taking a few pics, uploading them to flickr (with kirrihill tag) I chucked the whites in the fridge for our upcoming Geezers band practice.
Dave, Rob and Steve from the Geezers turned up for [...]

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Any filtering mechanisms can be easily circumvented
Can’t ‘whitelist’ enough stuff to keep the net working properly
Can’t ‘blacklist’ enough stuff to prevent nasty surprises

I might come back and elaborate on my 3 peeves, but for now I just wanted to state my opinion in a calm rational way – before all hell breaks loose!
Campaigns have been [...]

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My google alert for things related to my work at Prof Tanya Monro’s Centre of Expertise in Photonics just turned up a hitherto undiscovered little gem – a podcast by Richard Chirgwin called ‘a series of tubes’. Richard asks some very insightful questions that bring out some interesting points about ‘extreme regime’ physics, the multidisciplinary [...]

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Just listened to an excellent podcast of a talk given by Dr Angelina Russo on Social Media & Museums. I was inspired to think of similar patterns and practices that could apply to the world of scientific research. Dr Russo presented a very nicely structured analysis of much of the chaos  I have observed from [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the second last week of October, 2008.
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CSIRO podcast – building a green online community – yourdevelopment.org
BBC Culture Shock – Sounds of Science – Centre for Alpine Ecology in northern Italy, 1500 metres up Monte Bodone
Scientific American – Web Science (an emerging discipline for studying [...]

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