Monthly Archives: October 2007

Laptops for Africa

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Allan Jackson

Some months ago, I wrote of the One Laptop Per Child project which had developed cheap shiny green laptops intended for children in developing nations. The XO laptops run on Linux and are amazingly capable, given their $200 price tag, … Continue reading →

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Social sites virtually take over

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Allan Jackson

This online socialising thing gives rise to a whole raft introspection about whether it’s altogether healthy spending lots of time socialising over the Internet with people you’ll probably never meet in the flesh. I’m not talking about people who can’t … Continue reading →

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Declaring e-mail bankruptcy

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Allan Jackson

Today, we turn to the problem of e-mail and the problems faced by people who get too much of it to be able to cope. A recent USA Today article reports that nearly 40 billion e-mails are sent by people … Continue reading →

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Happy endings

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Allan Jackson

This week, I found a wonderful website that is dedicated to the belief that sad books are bad books and that childrens’ books should only have happy endings. The website, at thehappyendingsfoundation.org [Site not existant. 15/1/2011. Ed.], is apparently operated … Continue reading →

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(Radio)heading off at a tangent

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Allan Jackson

Last week I talked at some length about the perils of this job and how easy it is to waste lots of time reading about interesting but non-relevant topics when researching the current week’s column on the web. One of … Continue reading →

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