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The Playpower Foundation is using “the world’s most inexpensive home computer” as a platform for learning games in order to improve educational access for millions of children around the world. Motivated by the availability of this radically affordable platform, their goal is to design and discover high-quality 8-bit learning games and make computer-aided learning affordable for people everywhere. Playpower are looking for volunteers to design and develop all aspects of educational software (including games) for their system. Think you can help?

If you’ve come here expecting girv dot net, DON’T PANIC! After running the Wee Doors Banging blog on girv dot net for around a year, I found that I was writing articles covering three main topics: technical, cycling and “everything else”. Taking stock, I felt that these three subjects didn’t belong under one roof, so I’ve recently carried out a bit of reorganisation and split the original blog out into two standalone sites under their own domains. I now maintain four “personal” sites covering different topics…

I’ve been suckered into taking part in another Facebook meme – the album cover.

Instructions:

1. Go to Wikipedia and click Random
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
   The first random article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to “Random Quotations”
   http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
   The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
   http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
   Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use Photoshop, MS Paint, Paint.NET or similar to put it all together to make an album cover.
5. Post it to Facebook with this text in the “caption” and tag the friends you want to join in.

May I therefore now present my first album, “Capital to form a Corporation”, by Ned Berdard Stonehouse.

John Girvin is a software engineer, sci-fi buff, cyclist and retrocomputer fan (ie: nerd) from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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The keyserver says: have run out of OGR-NG work.

It wasn’t too long ago that I read a similar message from my distributed.net client log regarding the OGR-25 project, but once again distributed.net has fans of distributed computing efforts rejoicing at the completion of another massive computation. They have successfully harnessed the spare capacity of thousands of ordinary computers around the world to exhaustively determine the optimal 26-mark Golomb Ruler, thus completing project OGR-26.

The European Union is to fund the creation of an “Emulation Access Platform” that will be able to accurately render “digital objects” of various kinds, including video games. The intention is to develop new ways of storing and accessing images, sounds, documents and, yes, even video games, so that they may still be accessed long after the original platforms for which they were created have been made obsolete by the march of progress.