Learning with the Fang

Saturday night was the launch of Chris Finnen’s twin DVD ‘Building musical bridges between cultures’ & ‘Singing gallery live sessions’.

As Chris noted during his performance – it was more like playing at home with the lounge full of friends. McLaren Vale’s singing gallery was chok-a-block with tables of people sharing food and wine.  The sound [...]

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Heard a loud bang outside at 2.30am Friday night.

Some mongrel vandal king-hit my interim letterbox with something heavy.Momentum was conserved.
So I stuck this out the front of the house:

Not quite finished but will have to do.(Wonder how long it will last)
Considering sticking an old USB web cam under the front verandah.
Fang – Mike Seyfang

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It is with some sadness that I write this post to inform you all that I am saying goodbye to Flock (after more than a year) as my blog editor.  To me Flock was the perfect combination of FireFox with all the right add-ins preconfigured with a lovely blog (html) editor that works a treat [...]

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Anyone who has spoken with me over the last week or so, would be tired of hearing me bang on about the potential for mesh networks – inspired by a little device called the ‘meraki’.  Mark is much more eloquent than I and makes a rather compelling case for us to get involved in sharing [...]

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Originally uploaded by MikeBlogs
Imagine yourself at a ‘virtual lunch’ in ‘Second Life’ listening to a presenter from South America while interacting with ‘avatars’ of people from all over the world – all of which is being beamed into a room full of educators in Sydney and Melbourne.
That is what is going on with [...]

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