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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ learning it on their own driven by their own passion.
  * B: The "Snake" game
  * N: Strategic games
  * A: ...hmm...
- * Mom: They need an automatic spell checker
+ * (Mom: They need an automatic spell checker... and a **screensaver**, of course).
 
  * **What's the most annoying problem for you with Sugar?**
  * B: Can't use the "robot" function in //Ablar con Sara// (
@@ -70,9 +70,11 @@ We also updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduc
 which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Benedicto had been previously
 testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities.
 
+
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 == Mon, Mar 8 - Children like Sugar, for the wrong reasons ==
 
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }}        || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg  | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} ||
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }}        || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00029.jpg  | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} ||
 
 The owner of **Centro de Assistencia Tecnica y Soporte (CATS)**, the XO support center of
 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caacup%C3%A9 | Caacupé]], wrote:
@@ -95,18 +97,19 @@ FG
 
 I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children start lining up outside of CATS' door
 early in the morning, and keep coming all day long, until the evening. All of them ask
-for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said: "Quiero poner ventanas
-coloradas" (I want colored windows). They're obviously referring to the Gnome desktop,
-also known as "salva pantallas" (screensaver).
+for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said:
+
+ "//Quiero poner ventanas coloradas//" (I want colored windows).
 
-Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "Ahora tienen Windows!"
-(now I have Windows). In Spanish, therre's no ambiguity on the meaning of the word Windoews.
+They're obviously referring to the Gnome desktop, also known as "//salva pantallas//" (screensaver).
+Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "//Ahora tienen Windows!//"
+(now I have Windows). In Spanish, therre's no ambiguity on the meaning of the word Windows.
 
 Power of brand. It doesn't rmatter if it's the actual Windows, or even if it really does
-something useful. It's new, it's colored and it's what adults are using. Oh, and it also comes
-with a really cool screensaver.
+anything useful at all. It's new, it's colored and it's what adults are using. Oh, and it
+also comes with a screensaver which makes it irresistible.
 
-Quick! Let's add all this crap to Sugar! :-)
+So, what do we do? Quick! Let's add a cool screensaver to Sugar! :-)
 
 Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal more to kids? By now, I think I've observed
 our young users closely enough to be able to guess what they're really missing in Sugar: