Learning with the Fang

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Entries from October 2007

On the fifth day of water week

October 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was reflecting on some of the excellent podcasts from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas earlier this year.  (I was planning to use some segments in a re-mix of pitchfest video, but I see that they are locked up under copyright - what a shame!)
adelaidefestivalofideas.com.au/podcasts.html  -  search for ‘water’ on that page
Three of my favourites […]

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Tags: litfuse · pitchfest

On the fourth day of WaterWeek

October 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Water PitchFest:

The LitFuse website has a page for Water Pitchfest (in the Fusebox section).
We have also created a ‘Yahoo Pipe’ that is filling up with many wonderful things.
Including videos on YouTube and for DownLoad and ReMix.
Fang - Mike Seyfang

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On the third day of waterweek

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

The web page for tomorrow’s ‘PitchFest’ went online at the litfuse website.  It contains some information about the event and will include pointers to videos from the event when they become available.  Hopefully by next week we will have hi res downloadable versions for the re-mixers out there.  Stay tuned for more info…

‘National Water Week […]

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Tags: pitchfest

On the second day of water week

October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

My Prime Minister promised me…
Prime Minister John Howard says, if he wins the election, the Government will spend an extra $80 million to help secure Adelaide’s water supplies.Campaigning in northern Adelaide, Mr Howard has promised to spend $40 million to double water recycling efforts in that area.
He has also committed $10 million toward planning […]

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Tags: litfuse · pitchfest · water

On the first day of water week…

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I was driving home from the Coonawarra and saw a number of irrigation pumps like this:

One was pumping what seemed like a lot of water into an open canal that ran around the outside of a paddock.  I noticed one pumping flat out as we drove into the region on Saturday morning and when we […]

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