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January 19th 2015
It was cold out this morning, but I managed to brave a 6k run, which felt really good. I spent the rest of the day doing chores like cleaning the bathroom and sorting the laundry before collecting the girls from school.
This evening was spent in front op the laptop, writing a report for a meeting at work tomorrow and number crunching to make sure my data is ok for it. I've got piles of marking I need to do, and would prefer to be doing, but hey-ho.
As many of you are already aware, we created the Pudú mascot for the One Laptop Per Child campaign in Chile (Un computador por niño). While the Chilean initiative does not call specifically for the OLPC hardware developed by Nicholas Negroponte and his team at MIT, it was inspired by the work done there. So, for a long time we have been following news about the OLPC machine which is named the XO.
Sophia and Enzo have now had their own OLPC XO for about three weeks. If you are interested in learning more, we've posted an explanation and preliminary review of the XO including the story of why we bought our children a computer and how we decided on the XO over other options.
There was a crumb under one of my keys so I took it off to get it out and one thing led to another...
Now you can compare the Latin with the Greek alphabet, sorry for my saying that but I think it is obvious that the Latin one derived from the Greek .....hahahah we all speak greek in a way!!!
This thing is tiny! And the keys feel fantastic. Unfortunately, it fails to live up to certain parts of its advertising. On Apple's product page, they claim:
"Two USB 2.0 ports provide high-speed connectivity for your iPod, Mighty Mouse, digital camera, and other USB-based electronic devices. Yes, we did think of everything."
I tried plugging in my 5.5G iPod into one of the USB ports and received the infamous "Low Power" notification, indicating the device couldn't be used. So much for "thinking of everything."
See the blog post for more info Apple’s New, Super Sleek Keyboards
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Got a new keyboard :)
I swapped the layout of the Alt and Windows keys because it makes more sense on the Mac – the Windows key basically acts as the Mac's Command key, and many keyboard shortcuts are easier to type if the key's where it is in this picture. Luckily they're the same size, on both sides of the keyboard.
It also makes swiching from the built-in keyboard to the external one a bit easier (apart from the different positions of keys like # and @)
Old Japanese keyboard at the Deutsches Museum. Every key has 12 possible characters. Caption from the museum: "The Japanese "alphabet" is a mixture of Chinese ideograms (Kandji) and the Japanese sillabary derived from them (Katakana, or in its cursive form Hiragana). The Roman letters are used in addition, together with the digits 0 to 9. A keyboard with 216 keys, each representing twelve characters, was developed for data input in Japanese. An additional pad of 12 keys selects one of the twelve possible shift states. Altogether, more than 7000 Japanese characters can be entered. A further 26 keys serve for control purposes."
Am I mad for trying this again? At a time when I'm busier than ever. I gave up previously because I frequently use other peoples computers (a dozen times a day). Two days in, my brain is screaming at me right now, but I think I owe It to my fingers.
Note the @ where (I believe) American keyboards have the " symbol. I think the # is different on an American keyboard.