Providence Geeks -- a group open to anyone who shows up at their gatherings -- will have their third monthly meeting tomorrow night at AS220, 115 Empire St., from, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. or later. (Details).

This group needs women
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Something new this time, a mini-demo: "Kipp Bradford and Brian Jepson will present the fundamentals of your gadget power needs and show you some ways to build your own charger that can feed juice to any device that charges over a USB connection."

I hope this is like Mr. Wizard.

Spring break in Katrina's wake: My longtime newsroom neighbor, Providence Journal features and society writer Faye Zuckerman, and her 12-year-old daughter, Melanie Chitwood, of Barrington are blogging from a tent in Arabi, La., near St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans' Ninth Ward.

They're spending this spring-break week volunteering at a relief kitchen run by Emergency Communities.

Fay & Mel in NOLA is their busy and interesting blog. Catch it while it's live, and watch them work.

From Mel: The storm is not over

...something I heard while we were getting a tour of New Orleans yesterday.

“A lot of people think the storm is over, but it’s not. The winds have gone, but the storm is still here.” Mary Greco