I just saw the news that Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch lost his battle with Pancreatic Cancer. I lost count how many times I showed his “Last Lecture” video to friends and family and recommended or sent the link out.
It’s also sad, to a great extent because, today’s logo was created on March 31st. […]

I have not written about the OLPC project for many months. The reason is there has been little to write about. The hardware has not changed. It is still amazing. The software has not changed (other than a number of development releases) and still is missing critical function and numerous fundamental bugs. Most of […]

I’ve been looking for a good “screen recording” solution for Ubuntu. When I was a windows guy, I used Camtasia 5. It worked really well. For a while they were even giving away version 3 but that seems to have gone away. Still, if you use Windows, you can make 30 days worth […]

Today and for the next few days, I am attending a professional conference. For 4 1/2 days, I will be surrounded by a very large number of people (8000+) representing customers, technical professionals, executives, gurus, and wannabes. With literally hundreds of sessions and all those people, how do you make the most of […]

It is nearly midnight on the East coast of the Unites States and with that, the end of the Give 1 Get 1 donation program from the OLPC Foundation.
I was curious how successful the donation program had been - with my definition of “success” being the number of donation.
A laptop Magazine interview […]