Christopher Blizzard

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Month: August, 2006

keyboards, keyboards, everywhere

NEED INPUT, STEPHANIE
One of the hardware components in the laptop is the keyboard. Because we’re looking to build a laptop that’s relatively well-sealed against the elements (that’s “water resistant” not “water proof”) we’ve been looking into using sealed keyboards.
The last set of keyboards that we got weren’t very good. When you used them [...]

someone is copying someone, and it’s all pretty gross

There’s an article over on abcnews that describes a man who had his twin brother growing in him for 36 years. (Uhh, eww?) But that’s not the interesting part. My buddy Zach points out the similarity of the text from the article and a related wikipedia article. First, the wikipedia article:
Fetus [...]

wikipedia and the laptops

Andy Carvin is talking about the fact that we’re going to try to include some content from Wikipedia on the laptops when they ship. It’s pretty cool that this is public now.
The trick becomes – what content? What set of knowledge do we include? Some subset, different on each laptop? That’s [...]

no country orders for laptops

I keep seeing this meme reported over and over again: that One Laptop per Child has gotten commitments from countries that add up to 4 million laptops.
This is not true.
I want to make this very clear. I work in the One Laptop office every day and I’m generally aware of what’s going on with [...]