Christopher Blizzard

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Month: May, 2006

motorcycle for sale

I’m selling my bike. I live in the Boston area. If you’re interested in it, send some email to the email address on the craigslist page. The bike is a great time and it needs a good home.

a note about the olpc prototype

Reading through comments on digg, slashdot, engadget and other places I think there is some confusion. What makes this particular prototype different is that it’s functional. That is, it’s got a working motherboard, a display, keyboard that’s hooked up and you can plug in USB devices. Earlier prototypes weren’t functional. That’s [...]

some more sugar notes

Tom Hoffman has an article up that includes screenshots of the sugar interface that I posted the other day. He touches on some of the underlying technology as well. There are a couple of interesting things in that screenshot that I would like to expand on.

First, the ability to draw in chat. [...]

latest OLPC laptop prototype

This is the latest OLPC prototype we’ve gotten from the great guys at Quanta. Today we had an all day meeting with various countries who are interested in deploying the laptop. You have no idea how excited people get when they have a real live artifact to play with. I spent a [...]

a taste of sugar

The image above is a result of the work that the awesome team at Red Hat has done. The board at the bottom of the screenshot is one of the first pre-test A boards that the amazing people at Quanta have delivered. The hardware is pretty close to what the final main board [...]

context of use

I’d like to spend some time talking about the an idea that I’ve been chewing on for a while. That idea is context of use.
A little background to start. Red Hat has been heavily involved in the One Laptop per Child project. We’ve got quite a few developers working full time on [...]

unlost

Since April 18th I’ve watched 45 episodes of lost. One more and I’m caught up and I will have to wait a week between episodes. I’m not sure what that will do to me.