Learning with the Fang

I have been helping out with the Wine2030 BlueSky summit and would like any of my readers who are interested in the Australian wine industry to join me either online or possibly in person next Tuesday. Here’s the deal – if you have ideas on how academic research in any discipline could possibly enhance any [...]

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I have just been handed 3×1 hour .wmv files of about 900MB, containing
some very slow 640×480 footage of a glass extrusion recorded to miniDV
tape. The plan is to turn into 5 minutes of fast moving extrusion
goodness.
I know I can set up FinalCut Pro to import the
footage, change the duration of each clip to 1:40 then [...]

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boys and their toys!
Originally uploaded by mandyseyfang
This ‘Vocal Delay’ apparatus was made for Jamie by one of his band mates. It was used to great effect in recent gigs by ‘breakable things on the bookshelf’ – the latest band to grace our rehearsal room and the streets of Adelaide.
The ‘kludging’ of an old PC CD-ROM [...]

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Hats off to @garyphayes for his most excellent Social Media COUNT. I intend to use it in an upcoming presentation – which would be all the better if I could find / show similar figures for ye olde Electronic Mail.
Trouble is, I’m having a tough time finding data (especially historical) on e/mail usage. In addition [...]

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Somewhere near the intersection of technology and human desire lies great opportunity for a better way of doing things. As we begin to break free from the irons clapped on us by the industrial revolution, we need to learn how to ask better questions, how to co-operate and play more productively so that we can [...]

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