Christopher Blizzard

I love you.

Month: November, 2006

doom on the xo

Go kick some ass, Dan!

a thousand pounds of laptops

Today we received the first large shipment of laptops from the factory. I’m told it’s about a thousand pounds. The boxes are all labeled with the countries the keyboards are built for: The US, Nigeria, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil and Libya.
Each of the large boxes is a “five pack” and each smaller box is [...]

first machine in cambridge

We received our first machine in the Cambridge today from the plant. This is one of the hand-assembled models running the browser in Sugar. I have a less blurry picture that was taken using the flash, but the display doesn’t look as good.
Update: There are some more pictures in the wiki! Even [...]

sunrise at olpc

I like this idea of sunrise over OLPC because it really captures where we are today. Last night we had our first real run on an assembly line and put together roughly 200 systems. This is the first time that all of the parts have really been assembled together for testing. Those [...]