Another day of the freakishly warm weather in D.C. (80 degrees today) had me outside in my backyard testing a 15 watt solar panel as a charger for the sealed lead acid battery in my Freeplay Freecharge Weza foot-powered generator. Either or both of these will power the XO "$100" laptop anywhere off the grid. Now I just need to hit on a stable firmware & OS combination for the laptop where the power management bugs have been fixed. The core development team is feverishly coding frequent software releases in preparation for the upcoming Give 1 Get 1 program.

- mike lee - wheaton, md