Using hay/straw seems like a great idea and should be considered.<div>Unfortunately</div><div>Technology keeps drifting into fields of corporate complexity</div><div><div class="gmail_quote">where simple homegrown solutions can become overlooked</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">or seem "unprofitable".</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i>Indigenous technologies</i> are closer to the original meaning of the word:</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>technology : <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">from Greek <i>tekhnologia</i> </span></b></span></font></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; ">from: </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; "><b>tekhnē </b> ‘art, craft’ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-logy <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">denoting a subject of study or interest </span></span></span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">the technologist as a craftsperson? would've thunk?</div><div class="gmail_quote">maybe if we took on THIS attitude to solving problems as a "craft" or as an "art"</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">we might actually stress emphasis on create sustainable solutions</div><div class="gmail_quote">which could certainly apply to language/culture as well.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
Richard Zane Smith</div><div class="gmail_quote">Wyandotte Oklahoma</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikinakn@shaw.ca">mikinakn@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I'm trying to Heather...<br>
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On 01/06/2010 4:12 PM, Heather Souter wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Wahwaa!!! Wow!!! LET'S MAKE THIS VIRAL!!!!<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Rolland
Nadjiwon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikinakn@shaw.ca" target="_blank">mikinakn@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Really...you just gots to see this one.... Something stil to be said
about farmers I guess....wonder what all those high tech engineers
think about this, eh...<br>
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