Bob Stepno\'s Red Liner » Radford http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/stepno ... far from Harvard Square Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:47:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ One Laptop for a Child, One More Laptop for a Blogger http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/stepno/2007/12/28/one-laptop-for-a-child-one-more-laptop-for-blogger/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/stepno/2007/12/28/one-laptop-for-a-child-one-more-laptop-for-blogger/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:22:48 +0000 stepno http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/stepno/2007/12/28/one-laptop-for-a-child-one-more-laptop The rubbery child-sized keyboard of my One Laptop Per Child XO computer isn’t great for my usual verbose blog entries, but this item has already accomplished its purpose — testing the XO with WordPress.

Alas, the XO’s browser doesn’t show a text cursor in “visual” editing mode with Harvard’s WordPress installation, but I can type well enough in “code” view. The browser has a similar problem with Gmail. I plan to try it with other Web editors and see if there’s any discussion of the topic on the olpc wiki site.

Just a few more days remain in the Give One Get One offer from olpc. I hope more folks in the Radford area order the little green guys so we can try the collaborative music and drawing programs.

Maybe this will tip someone over the edge: One bonus feature I didn’t appreciate until I took a Christmas trip to New York — the G1G1 offer includes a year of T-Mobile’s wifi service, which normally sells for almost the price of the computer. I have a lot of wifi access points in Radford, but the fact that T-mobile offers service at Starbucks made the XO a handy interstate travelling companion.

While in New York, I saw this AP/Times piece on the real “market” for the XO computers.

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