Fri, 13 Apr 2007

It's here... OLPC/XO-1 etc

You might have guessed my silence over the past couple of days was either:

  1. completely normal due to the usual reasons for my erratic posting schedule; or,
  2. due to the OLPC/XO-1 laptop prototype finally arriving.
Here's a clue:

XO-1 self-portrait

As to the reports I took a trip to the courier's airport depot just so I didn't have to wait an extra day to receive the laptop... Well, what do you think?!

OLPC at TVIC

I managed to get the laptop upgraded to the latest firmware and system build just in time to take it for a show-and-tell at our monthly The Valley in Christchurch dinner. This display of geek-dom resulted in a small video recording demo starring Marek, Paul and myself (signed model releases not available).

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Tue, 10 Apr 2007

The Valley In Christchurch April dinner, tonight!

A reminder that if you're in Christchurch, New Zealand, you should attend tonight's dinner meeting of The Valley in Christchurch.

OLPC

If it gets delivered in time and I get it set up ok I'll see about bringing the (hopefully) newly arrived OLPC to tonight's dinner...

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Mon, 09 Apr 2007

Like Christmas at Easter

Late last week I received an email saying: 

Please send us your complete address and phone number so we can send you a 
XO B2 machine.
If I said I hadn't been repeatedly refreshing the package tracker page ever since i'd be lying. :-) Unfortunately while I know the package left Auckland late this morning I won't be getting it until tomorrow at the earliest as today is a public holiday. :-(

Now I just have to come up with something to do with the OLPC laptop to make their investment in sending me one worthwhile:

(The delivery is the result of a submission I made at linux.conf.au in January where Jim Gettys invited people to email development ideas for a chance to get a OLPC laptop to develop on.)

But remember: "It's an education project, not a laptop project."—Nicholas Negroponte

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