Una Laptop por Niño: The philanthropic effort dubbed the $100 Laptop has not met its grand initial goals. But its first deployment, in Peru, may turn skeptics into believers. from the Technology Review.

Oh jeez I just ate so much Pad Thai I am sweating.

The OLPC paper #1 is in the bag. I just printed it without double-siding and I feel like a bit of a mean anti-environmental jerk, but I often wonder if professors prefer it one-sided and right now i am into anything I can do to keep my average above the "goodbye grade point average" mark.

Stats:

23 pages including footnotes.

45 footnotes in total (there are plenny ibids though).

5513 words about development and childproof laptops.

If you would like a copy to read please email me.

So over at Hugh's blog I just left a snarky rejoinder to his posting of this handy little slide-show-of-negativity internetishsit an uber hipper-then-thou statement of disillusionment with the promise of new media.

Just in case you don't believe the hipness, I would draw you attention to the purple background. Purple is/was the hip colour of fall winter 2007/08 check out the H&M catalogue if you still aren't convinced.

So what makes me so full of hate for the little shit piece there?

If you, like me are curious to know how an OLPC initiative is working out as we speak. I have found a great little project over in Nepal.

Welcome to Shree Bashuki Lower Secondary School near Kathmandu.

In March they began preparing for their first OLPC pilot project. Kids in Nepal go back to school on April 14th, so the project leads are in the middle of preparation hysteria as far as I can tell.

These are some fascinating logs and blogs of their experience thus far, and though I can criticize NN for hubris, I can't criticize what seems to be a pretty decent little seed he's planted.

Yes, and I sure as S**t wish I was there troubleshooting their XO's, rather then here writing a paper.

“The days of pilot projects are over. When people say we’d like to do 3 or 4000 in our country to see how it works, screw you go to the back of line and someone else’ll do it and then when you figure out this works, you can join as well.”

From a Ted Talk that isn't really worth watching.