The One Laptop Per Child initiative has roots going back many years, but really started in January 2005. That's when the program and the goal of the $100 laptop were officially announced. Since then, there have been little rumblings every once and a while, but for the most part, it was forgotten...
As you may have noticed, I have replaced those Google ads at the top of most pages here with the banner for the Child's Play charity. That means it's time for me to harass everyone that I know and anyone else that will listen, to get them to make a donation. Child's Play was founded in 2003...
So, yesterday was apparently Blog Action Day , where the goal was to get blogs all over to post on a single topic - the environment. If I had heard about this before last night, and if I had had any time in the last three days, I would most definitely have participated, but since that isn't the case...