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The OLPC [One Laptop Per Child] Foundation is starting their annual Give One Get One campaign on November 17th! Last year I donated a laptop and got mine in the mail a few months later. It’s not the fastest computer, but it’s cute and rugged and novel [did I mention hackable?]. One laptop only costs $199, and I’m sure a lot of you out there are self-employed, which means you can benefit from the write off. You get a tax break and a kid gets a computer. Sweet deal.

OLPC Equation

I just got back from ZendCon 2008 and it was pretty fun. Much more fun than a typical work week. I got to learn a lot about the new features of PHP, some common and not so common security pitfalls and I met a lot of rad programmers. The highlight for me though, was the Yahoo party. Yahoo raffled off a Nintendo Wii, which I happened to win! When I went to pick it up from the rafflers the crowd of PHP developers started shouting “Speech! Speech!” So I stood up on a chair and told them I was an AS3 developer, and they promptly booed me down. I escaped unscathed, with the Wii.

Look at that happy lad! Time to get this thing ready for some homebrew apps.

After a little down time I’m back up in a much better situation! This blog is now hosted by 600RECORDS, which rocks. Tanks!

Hey guys, I’m not sure who reads this on a regular basis, but I’ve been super swamped with work lately and haven’t had a lot of time [or energy] for my own development. Hopefully I’ll be seeing things clear up soon and I’ll have some new classes and new projects to share with you. Thanks for sticking in there, tiger. In the meantime, here’s a rad video.

The first piece of [non-game] software I ever purchased was TextMate, just now. I buckled down and bought it. It is flippin sweet. I hope my move to linux finds me an equivalent editor. DORKSAUCE. Ah, I also bought 4GB of RAM for my MacBook for $80 at newegg. That’s almost 10x less than buying 2GB from Apple. They’re not “fully buffered EEC” but 2x2GB @ $36 each? Bomb! > 2x1GB @ $150 each, that’s for sure. I’ll let you know how it goes after installation.

*update*
Macbook Pros (at least my model) only support a max of 3gb of RAM. So I’m full up and have 2gb left over. I’m giving it to my friend Matthew. My mbp’s been running great with the new memory, so it’s all good.

This guy and Paul Roberts would be my dream team to work on a platformer with.

Here it is. My first code blog. I’ve been making little AS3 projects for a couple months and have had no place to put them. Now I have some kind of repository. So if you’re a  programmer, designer, gamer or script kiddie, bookmark my blog – fo fun.