OpenId.net!is

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One username and password for all the sites that you use!  Wait doesn’t Microsoft do that with Passport?  Yeah, but what if you don’t trust Microsoft?

Hummm….  Well, what do you think about this scheme:  You can choose any authentication provider be it a very establish, trusted company like Verisign or a niche player like www.MyOpenId.com.  And any site that implements the OpenID protocol can use that ID.

This is something I have  been wanting to see for a long time.  Check it out at www.OpenId.net.  Also, there is a wordpress plugin verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

So, expect to see all my sites OpenID enabled soon.

Interesting things from Laptop.org

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1. Walter Bender met with Carole Wacey of Mouse.org. Mouse works with youth on technology mentoring programs. Children at Mouse.org are already actively engaged in authoring tutorials and videos about the XO and the older children (middle and high school) are interested in mentoring the elementary-school children who would be getting the XOs.

3. Villa Cardal: While anyone can watch videos on YouTube, children with XOs are posting videos. A video shot on an XO, “parto de una vaca (birth of a calf),” was posted by a 10-year-old child who is participating in the Villa Cardal trial in Uruguay (Please see www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=BOzBTGGVWNg).

5. $1 video microscope: A video of Mary Lou’s prototype microscope attachment for the XO video camera is posted on the web (Please see www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI28-IS9AII). In the video, she compares various LCD screens. The microscope, which has ~ 100× magnification, could be useful to analyzing water quality, among other things.

Added English-Hindi dictionary

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I added a English-Hindi dictionary to ISpeakHindi.com that I found in the public domain.  You can see it at: www.ispeakhindi.com/dictionary/sa.htm

Leaving Aomori — headed back to Tokyo

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Had a wonderful day in Aomori yesterday.  We went to the Mt. Hakkoda Snow March Memorial Museum, saw the statue of one of the survivors on Mt. Hakkoda.  We went on a RopeCar ride (same as cable car), saw the Nabuta festival floats, ate at an all Japanese ran Indian restaurant, then bought our tickets for the ride back.

Possible core for wearable computer?

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www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5551137361.html

www.fit-pc.com/specifications.htm

www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9996942590.html

Compulab has introduced a fanless PC, roughly the size of a paperback book, that consumes a mere 3 to 5 watts of power. The “fit-PC” comes with Linux preinstalled, and is intended to fit where conventional PCs won’t, according to the Haifa, Israel-based company.

Compulab says the fit-PC is based on the company’s CM-iGLX computer-on-module (COM), touted as the world’s smallest LX800-based single-board computer when it was introduced last fall. The module has a 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800 processor, and is equipped with 256 MB of DDR RAM and up to 512 MB of NAND flash.

www.compulab.co.il/x270/html/x270-enc-datasheet.htm

www.compulab.co.il/x270/html/x270-em-datasheet.htm

in Aomori

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We meet up with our friends from Houston that are visiting Japan.  We meet in Tokyo and have since come to Aomori.

Let me let you know some things that we have done in the past couple of days:

1) Pokemon center

2) Ueno Zoo

3) Natural Science Musuem in Ueno

4) Had dinner at my friend’s home (Yagi-san’s house)

5) Dropped off luggage at the hotel that we are going too.

I’m sure there are some other things that I can’t remember.

Tokyo day tour, Mt. Fuji, Kidzania

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Day before yesterday when on a morning Tokyo city tour.  We went up the Tokyo Towers, went to the Meiji Shrine, visited the double bridge at the Imperial Palace, and ended up in Ginza at a Pizza and Pasta place.  Then in the afternoon went to the Children’s castle, which was closed on Tuesday, because it is normally closed on Monday, and Monday was a national holiday, so it was open on monday.  Then went to the UN University next door.  Christopher enjoyed taking pictures with many of the flags from different countries.  Then we went to the hotel and crashed.

Sonia and I had a bit of insomnia because of jet lag, so we watched Astronaut Farmer.  I really liked the movie and recommend it.

Yesterday we went on an all day tour to Mt. Fuji and surrounding areas.  We went up to the 5th station on Mt. Fuji, but it was all cloudy, so we could not see many good views.  We also went on a gondola ride but again it was so cloudy, you could not see anything.  We also went on a 30 minute boat ride on one of the lakes.  It was about a 2 hour trip from the city to the area.  So, we spent most of the day in the bus.

Today we are going to Kidzania with some friends, that should be good.  Tonight I have dinner with my co-workers.