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The recent months I've been neglecting my  Cubing for charity  project. But a fter viewing a great   TED talk by Lisa Kristine  about modern day slavery  I've decided that the next   Cubing for charity   must go to  Free the Slaves .  Thanks to all users Rubik's Cube Algorithms who by their inherent nerdiness made this possible! 

Finally it's time for #2 in the series ' Cubing for charity '. Which is the concept that until the profit from ads in Rubik's Cube Algorithms (and other apps) reaches a substantial part of my income, it will be donated to charity. Also i tend to choose projects from the places a visited while i was traveling Asia. This time 54 USD goes to Cambodia Children's Painting Project in Sihanoukville Cambodia. The project is basically to let kids be kids. Unfortunately there are still a lot of kids selling bracelets on the beaches. We now provide so much more to the kids, including access to painting, craft and sports activities, a small snack and lunch everyday, access to medical and dental assistance and the most important thing, an opportunity to receive a proper education.

The last couple of months I've been traveling in Asia and come face to face with the extreme poverty here. Of course I've heard the news, seen the pictures and read the facts but it's not the same as actually seeing it with your own eyes. I felt like I had to do something. So I've decided that until the profit from the ads in Rubik's Cube Algorithms (and other apps) reaches a substantial part of my normal income, it will be donated to charity. I know this is kind of a feel-good-move on my part since the amount of money spent by me for the sole purpose of traveling is infinitely more than the profit from the ads. But at least it's something and I will continue with the donations on each payment from admob . The first donation goes to Hand in Hand whose objective is: Our objective is to eliminate poverty by creating jobs. We do this through our unique holistic approach that tackles the areas that matter the most to poor communities – microfinance, education, ...

Long time since I've posted anything so i think an update of what i've been up to is about time.I've been trying my wings on the android SDK with a very simple application for showing all OLL/PLL algorithms ( cubefreak.net for more cube related stuff). Also I've got my beta invite for flattr yesterday and i really like the idea behind it. So I've added flattr buttons on all my blog posts! Read more about flattr on their homepage or at wikipedia .