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breaking news: OLPC XOs come to Canberra
I’m pleased to announce… ===== For Immediate Release 14 October, 2008 One Laptop Per Child Open Day Computing Assistance Support & Education (CASE) will be hosting Canberra’s first One Laptop Per Child Open Day Monday 27 October 2008 3.00pm at Volunteering ACT 55 Chandler Street (corner of Chandler and Cameron Streets) Belconnen. Pia Waugh, open source software [...]
Blue Sky Kite Festival III
Just received a flyer in the mail (oldschool!) and though I’d post the info here; Cook Community Blue Sky Festival III All welcome Saturday 11 October Location: Cook School Oval Build-a-kite workshop – 12:00 Mass fly-up from – 2:00 Kite bulding, saussage sizzle, drinks and prizes. BYO Kites or make your own on the [...]
Kororaa wraps up.
So the script-based, make-it-easy-for you installer “Kororaa” for Gentoo Linux has come to the end of it’s days. Chris spent a lot of time working on it and managed to develop a sizable community around the software. I know he also learned a lot about open source software and everything that comes with it (Specifically [...]
iDEF site goes live, CASE gets a FaceBook Page
The latest product out of the e-Shack has been launched today: www.idef.com.au is now live and populated with information regarding the International Digital Entertainment Festival to be held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Southbank, from 14 – 16 November. The International Digital Entertainment Festival (iDEF) is the platform for events and activities from an industry, [...]
OLPC XOs at BuzzMoo.com
BuzzMoo.com has been off the air during the time I’ve had the opportunity to play around with OLPC Inc’ XO laptop, and I intend to make up for lost time by providing good OLPC related resources here. There’s plenty to say, but I’ll just start with some links to some bits and pieces I’ve come [...]
All systems go…
Lately I think the majority of the posts on this domain must be “I’m back on the air”. That’s what you get when your development area is live and public. I’d actually managed to accumulate a fair amount of content here (relative to previous inceptions of buzzmoo.com) but I’ve had to abandon it in its current format [...]
Remote Viewing
Elroy Online’s Remote Viewing has it’s own home now. For those not introduced, Remote Viewing is a short video produced to summarise the latest content on elroyonline.net. We’re talking about reviews of The Hulk, Iron Man, anime like Ghost In A Shell, foreign entries you never heard of like Chrysalis, all presented in 2D animated [...]
bio knowledge node
If you head over tobio.knowledgenode.netyou’ll see the second of three pages that form what I suppose you could call a tripartite news feed. The three, solar, bio and wind, ultimately coalescing at www.knowledgenode.com to produce an overall picture of the state of renewable energies. With user input determining the more important articles, the information here [...]
This not just in! (mert)
No “interesting” anecdotes for today. Just updating to a) tell you all a few things and b) cause I haven’t updated for a week. i) If you’ve been to The Furman Machine or Elroy Online you’ve probably heard the leaked reports that buzzmoo.com (that’s right, I linked to this page) is planning a change to [...]
