I’d just like to say thanks to the people who turned up to the presentation in Auckland on Friday, I hope you had as much fun as I did!  Everyone that was there had interesting points and questions, so I thought it was just great. I will be doing the same thing in Wellington on …

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It appears that the mainstay of NZAE’s recent blogging efforts, Bill Kaye-Blake, now has a blog of his own: Groping towards Bethlehem. No doubt full of enthusiasm from the joy of blogging he decided he needed an outlet where he can talk about Meat Loaf, post-modern cliches, psycho-analysis, and welfare reform; a more idiosyncratic blend …

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Fascinating article on the New York Times about using deception to make cyclists push themselves past what they thought their limits were in training. It’s a shame I don’t have  coach for my road cycling….I’m not really sure if I will be able to “trick myself”, haha.

Those who trawl our site regularly may have noticed the blog has had a visual refresh over the last couple of days. For those who care, the main changes are: Less ugly: Fairly self explanatory… Social media integration:  this should make it much easier for you tell all your friends how much you disagree with …

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From TVHE. And don’t forget – if it wasn’t that we arbitrarily valued the idea of people spending time “thinking” about our gifts (and that the gift givers sometimes value looking like they are thinking) it would just be optimal for us to give each other money Also note that the cost of Christmas dinner …

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At least from me.  I am away. There will be posts, I’ve got a number of little delayed ones coming along.  And I’ll try to respond to comments when I get back – we will see