Learning with the Fang

At last!! – a PodCast feed for all sessions from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. Subscribe to THIS RSS FEED in your favorite pod-catcher (e.g. iTunes) to turn the downloadable .mp3 files from the official website into true podcasts. Thanks to the various friends of the festival who provided the programming and elbow grease [...]

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For the first time ever, I’m actually in my hometown of Adelaide during the Festival of Ideas. As a service to my clued in expat friends who miss the event, I will try to find and blog about interesting information from the event. And, of course, I will try to find a way [...]

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After two years ‘walking the talk’ of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) at Amazon.com, architect extrordinare – Pat Helland is back at Microsoft. Pat probably doesn’t remember me, but I feel a strong affinity with him because the interactions between his blog and mine are what inspired me to keep blogging after I left [...]

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We have been taking our kids to Womad for as long as they have been able to walk.  Every year it has been a joy to watch them react to a rather utopian slice of life – nurtured in an extremely positive environment with a large but positive and caring crowd, wonderful musical connections and [...]

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Anyone looking for a role-model in how to deal with adversity?
Want to be convinced that postitive attitudes and lots of effort can make a difference?
When I dropped Jamie off to spend the day with Miles yesterday I felt that I had been through a time-machine. The photo above was taken exactly a week yesterday [...]

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