I'm waiting for the husband to finish using the desktop computer so I could scan a couple or more postcards for publishing this week. We have two computers at home, one desktop (his) and one laptop (mine). However, our three-in-one machine (printer-photocopier-scanner) is connected solely to his desktop. I have no other choice but to wait, surf the net, till he is done. 

While browsing through Facebook, I noticed a lot of my Cambodian friends, and their friends and friends of their friends are going crazy over the latest iPhone. Yes, this craze has reached this third-world country! It is not even available yet here in Phnom Penh but most of these friends of mine have relatives in the USA and so I'm not surprised anymore when I saw a couple of them toting the newly-released iPhnone4 the other week. Not only that, they have the complete iphone accessories that are so cool. 

On the other hand (and in an unrelated note), in the rural areas, especially in two provinces where I used to work (in a rural ICT project funded by a Canadian organisation), schoolchildren are getting their hands on computers (XO laptops) for the first time as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program in Cambodia. How cool is that? This is great news especially that schoolchildren in Cambodia have little or no access to computers, let alone the Internet, for learning and creative purposes. The OLPC is attempting to change this, and will definitely open the rural schoolchildren to the global village.