Dyslexia and spelling checkers

FOUR YORE I's ONLY
I have a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye cannot sea
When eye strike a quay to right a word
I weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait away
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two late
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely, rarely grate
I've run this poem threw it
I'm shore your pleased two noIts letter perfect in it's weigh
MY CHEQUER TOLLED ME SEW!

(Sauce unknown)

One the family members has been diagnosed with dyslexia. I started to look for some material and found this on several sites dedicated to dyslexia (starting with a site of the West Cumbria Dyslexia Association, a pure coincidence). I certainly do recognise the phonetic approach...

Dyirbal

George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things booktitle was based on this language. Fascinating. Lakoff's work (including Metaphors We Live By) was pretty cool in my AI days, but there was no Wikipedia article on the Dyirbal language back then!

Wiki

We're currently involved in setting up a wiki for aviation safety knowledge. We're using the mediawiki platform for this. Look and feel, content structure and content will change over time, but isn't that what it is all about? Thusfar, it has proven to be relatively hassle free. In the meantime, I learn a lot about aviation safety, in particular the Air Traffic Management part of it. Also, I'm really looking forward to seeing this wiki develop a community of contributors around it, resulting in high quality knowledge in this interesting field.

Project Retrospectives

I was rereading this book on Project Retrospectives on the train today and found it (again) quite useful, despite the software development context that the author puts project retrospectives in. For all knowledge management professionals who seek some alternatives exercises in their lessons learning workshops.