The (old) CuriousWorks Blog

Today we hosted the a Sydney meetup of OLPC Friends at our Randle St warehouse. OLPC Friends is a group of hackers, teachers, students and enthusiasts who are all interested in the OLPC project and XO laptops. Was great to meet Pia and the group, I also got some help with my XO laptop that wasn’t booting up and now we have the solution! » Read the rest of this entry «

One easy way to donate money to the bushfire appeal is to do your grocery shopping at Coles this Friday. Coles supermarkets will donate all profits from that day to the bushfire appeal. » Read the rest of this entry «

Over the next year, CuriousWorks HQ will be hosting a range of technology workshops with something to suit just about everyone, from luddites to tech-heads and noobs to nerds. The workshops will feature guest tutors from a wide range of professions and promise to be fun, factual and fabulous. » Read the rest of this entry «

Well you’ve really been meaning to make that website but you never got around to it. Those pictures and videos you promised yourself you’d share. You think you should start a blog, but you’re not entirely sure how. You don’t know what an HTML is (you’re sure she’s friends with WWW and FPS) and you really don’t care. And to top it off, your budget is close to zero. Luckily, CuriousWorks has the workshop for you! » Read the rest of this entry «

The Shahi dictionary uses social-media websites and language tools to provide photographic and visual results for language queries. How could we extend it’s use to the Ngarluma language? » Read the rest of this entry «