Friday, November 30, 2007

MediaMax & Python

Last week I signed up for a MediaMax account, which allows me to store files. It's kind of like my backup, just incase something happens to my main files. So far, I have stored files from Visual Basic, such as ND Subjects and just recently, Digital Clock.

Yesterday, I installed the program Python onto my computer at home. Later on in the year, my class will be doing some assignments using this program.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

One Laptop Per Child

"One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) was founded by Nicholas Negroponte. The goal of this organization is to provide children in developing countries an educational experience - in other words, an access to knowledge. From November 12, 2007 until December 31st, OLPC has established an offer to North American residents called, "Give 1 Get 1," which allows the consumer to get 2 laptops for a certain price, with one of them being sent to a child in a developing country.


For more information about OLPC, visit their official website at:
http://www.laptop.org/.

For a review from someone who owns an OLPC laptop, click here:
http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1014

For an article about OLPC from the Wall Street Journal, click here:
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/Wny$100LaptopProjectIsUnderSiege.aspx


(Image Credit: http://eris.njit.edu/~timothyk/uploads/olpc-green-white.jpg)

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Google Analytics Update

I've added the tracking code from Google Analytics to my blog for about a week now. From my reports, I have had 18 visits with 14 of them being absolute unique visitors. All my visitors so far are from Canada - 12 from Vancouver, 4 from Burnaby, and 2 from Port Coquitlam.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

My First Posting

I will be using several programming languages, such as Turbo Pascal and Visual Basic, for my assignments in ICT 12.