Summer of Tech (in general known as Summer of Code, but NZ expanded it to include more disciplines) is still almost half a year away for us. To shorten the time until then and to keep students and companies involved, the Summer of Tech team organized a Hackfest today. They brought soon-to-be graduates and mentors […]
A group of enthusiasts of the OLPC project in New Zealand meet every Saturday at the Southern Cross Bar to play with the XO, test it, record tutorials, give newbies like me their first opportunity to see an XO live, and to have a good time. After I had spent the previous two Saturdays in […]
Accents and dialects: I either understand them or I don’t, but I am definitely not good at figuring out where people come from. Listening to a Kiwi on the phone, I pretty much detect the accent and love it. Meeting the same person face-to-face, s/he sounds differently and the accent is often not so strong. […]