This video was taken on the Open-day at Linux.conf.au 2008. It shows Rusty Russell's Pong-game which can be played on any surface it is projected to. The game is based on the techniques researched by Jonny Chung Lee.
At Linux.conf.au 2008 a bunch of OLPC's were given out as present. The only premise was to either do something cool with it or to pass it over to somebody else who will do something cool with it. Nice !
... some of the guys actually seemed to "misuse" the OLPC's as mobile phones.Strange evolution, mobile phones actually seemed to get bigger and bigger.
We just experienced a fire alarm at the Old Arts building used by Linux.conf.au. Luckily it could be resolved quite quick, nobody got hurt and the talks continuing. Funny thing was that the alarm ring seemed to be in a kind of high-available mode because it tried to restart again and again even after it has being turned off.
.... reminded me to yesterday when a small bread on the toaster in the hotel room immediately started the fire alarm. I was flying downstairs to the reception because i read before that it is directly connected to the fire brigade and that you have to pay a real high fine if they are coming out. Luckily it was only the smoke alarm in the room and not the fire alarm of the hotel. Puuuah.
Now i am looking forward to the Penguin Dinner tonight which will be at the tonight at the night market in Melbourne. The social events (and of course the partners program) of LCA rocks !