Half

According to this Reuters article a divorced man in Germany chainsawed his house in half and drove it over to his brother’s house. The man was a mason, and probably smart enough to move the furniture to one side first.I’m not sure how I stumbled across this article in the first place. Like everyone else, I use web 2.0 a lot. I’m not sure why it’s called two point oh, where 2 would suffice, but there you go.Web 2.0 is a new kind of site: a webapp. Gmail and Yahoo Mail were forerunners of this: The kind of thing where it might just as well have been a regular app, like ThunderBird or Outlook or Mail.Then there was Writely, the online word, AIM, an online-and-offline IM service, FlickR, Blogger, Google everything.2.0 is useful because you can Access it from any computer. I could go to any computer in the world and check email, post to my blog, update Wikipedia, pretty much anything.But now with the whole OLPC project, the internet is the computer. OLPC is a low-cost, high-quality laptop designed for children in developing countrys. It’s $100, completely waterproof, Linux-based, internet capable, and uses only google. You can’t go to any site not listed on google, making it very safe. It uses very few apps, only some games, a Word proccesing unit, some drawing app, etc. Most work will be done online. Kenya has already signed up one for every kid.Steve Jobs offered to provide Mac OSX Tiger for every laptop, at no charge, but OLPC turned it down for a suprisingly good reason: social networking.The desktop on the OLPC computers is basically a radar system. It shows who else is on an OLPC in your area. It shows countries, cities, villages, schools, and lets you chat and share stuff.Other countries – not America – are very social.Of course.

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