Not going to sort our DNS headaches out this week or the next so wordpress.com it is!
I also finally found the spare time to install trac and put up some basic content for our current project so I guess that after six long months of hacking away in total obscurity things are starting to go live! 
Simulation for education is not a new idea but with the OLPC machines we not only have 500mhz of turbo charged goodness at our disposal but they are also networked!
Alan Kay was very positive about there being room for yet another SqueakLike environment out there so we’ve been pushing ahead full-steam with creating an application that takes a lot of inspiration from the ‘always-on’ ‘everything-can-be-fiddled’ feel of Smalltalk but aimed at the more constrained problem of teaching kids basic systems-science while giving them a first taste of python.
Not much there yet, but check it out: http://www.g7.org.za/education
Some obligatory screen shots from the first simulator: ‘Survival’
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