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Yes, yes, yes! The OLPCs have arrived. 209 kilograms of them, 100 lean-mean-green-machines.

It's superb. It awfully, criminally cute. White-and-green, extremely tiny - it was a lot smaller than I expected. The battery clicked in, I pressed the power button and it started working. Oddly enough, I've no problems with the Sugar interface. It's right as it should be, for the purposes of this laptop. It also blends perfectly with the look and feel of this little gem.

The screen is, as expected - superb. It's got an amazing detail for its tiny size. Not that tiny, considering that other "simmilar" solutions provide even smaller screens. Honestly, I don't think anything below this will be usable. Then it's the magical monochrome mode. Turn the light all the way down - hello, my perfect e-book reader. It works brilliantly under direct sunlight. And if you think that this is not important - you should go out more. The screen rotates, with the touch of a button. It's the most awesome of awesome.

I finally have a machine with a decent camera too. It works and it takes pictures. I will share some here, ASAP. It also has a mic and speakers built-in, so it's a fully functional communications agent, out of the box. Small box, with a power supply in it and a 1-page instruction manual. That's all you get.

The keyboard is strangely cute. Soft rubber keys, spill-resistant, what more to ask from it. Yes, you could whine about the size of the keys, or that sometimes you don't feel if you really pressed one of them or not. But they work with no big issues for me - I'm typing this from my OLPC. I wanted this blog to come from the small green machine.

It's just so cool. In the true spirit of geekness - I'm using Opera's special OLPC edition on it. I also have emacs and mplayer on it already. I watched a movie on it last night, with no issues whatsoever. Coding in the sun will be fun too. This is definitelly going to be my favourite plane toy. It's small and easy and it does anything I want. Its schoolbag, or lunchbox, looks will draw attention for sure. I want to see how people react to it, I'm sure that I'll be getting a lot of questions.

All of us will - the 60+ recepients from Opera Software and the rest of the lucky 100 that get to share the fun of this priceless little gem. Detailed updadtes for our progress in hacking into it are sure to follow.

That's right, I've got one of them sun jars from the thinkgeek people. I had it for my birthday, but it didn't see much use until a few weeks ago. For one, because it was in the office. The real reason was that it was bloody raining for months.

But now it's nice and warm and sunny outside so my sun jar gets a lot of love. It stays in the required direct sunlight out on my balcony all day. Then when the ambient light goes down to slightly uncomfortable level, it lights up and shines for hours and hours. It's actually pretty bright when it's nicely charged, and gets weaker as time passes.

In fact, in just a month, it'd be perfectly timed for us in Norway. It'll light up late, since the sun won't really set until 10 o'clock over here. And then as daylight slowly creeps back, the sun jar will be dimming down. It'll be awesome. It's a great addition to my balcony table(thanks Øyvind, now it finally comes to good use again, the table that is).

It's so nice, I'd get another one of them things, maybe throw in a moon jar to keep them company too. It's like a bright candle, only it's not a fire hazard when you pass out on the couch. It has a really warm glow, very cozy.

Sun jar - best thinkgeek product ever. Usually they've got totally useless things and some of their items are of despicable quality. But this product is awesome. Kudos to the guy with the original idea.

I'd post a photo, but I don't have a digital cam. I've a Nokia E51, and as we all know Nokia cameras suck donkey balls