2007-August
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Betel nut may be pleasant, but it does have a lasting effect.
The red is actually caused by an interaction between the nut iself
and the powdered quicklime that is taken with it. The lime is extremely
corrosive (duh) and often causes cancers and even perforation of the cheek.
All things, considered, I think I'll stick with kava, whose effects
are decidedly more transient.
Dr. Jimmy Rodgers, Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific
Community, addresses a plenary session at the PacINET 2007 conference
in Honiara, Solomon Islands. He speaking here about the first deployment
in the Pacific Region of the OLPC 'XO' laptop.
Jimmy, along with the other members of the OLPC Oceania committee, has been
instrumental in building interest and support for this and other critical
improvements in communications in the Solomon Islands and throughout the
Pacific Region.
Dr. Jimmy Rodgers, Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific
Community, addresses a plenary session at the PacINET 2007 conference
in Honiara, Solomon Islands. He speaking here about the first deployment
in the Pacific Region of the OLPC 'XO' laptop.
Jimmy, along with the other members of the OLPC Oceania committee, has been
instrumental in building interest and support for this and other critical
improvements in communications in the Solomon Islands and throughout the
Pacific Region.
(Full disclosure: I doctored this image a little, and superimposed a separate
shot of the laptop's screen over the original. The display on the laptop in
the foreground, in other words, is from the same machine during the same talk,
but taken from a different photo.)
Rododiana...
Rododiana...
David Leeming introduces the XO laptop to PacINET attendees during a plenary
session.
David, along with the other members of the OLPC Oceania committee, has been
instrumental in building interest and support for this and other critical
improvements in communications in the Solomon Islands and throughout the
Pacific Region.
Okay, seriously, we were testing the reception capabilities of the latest
XO laptop prototype. One of the impromptu tests was to see how it worked
while in motion. The idea here is to see whether a children could continue
chatting together as they walk home from school.
The laptop gets approximately 6 Dbi gain from its twin antennas - significantly
better than what you'd find on a typical laptop. On about 5 different
occasions, I was able to connect to hotspots when others with normal laptops
were not.
Imagicity | Photography - exotica, mundanity and wonders | © Dan McGarry
