emo google
Save power! Save the world! … or maybe not.
An email got sent around the wholefoods list, notifying us of blackle, a black google. The idea behind it is that by using black instead of white, power can be saved.
The problem is that it only works for CRT monitors (basically the default pixel colour for a CRT is black). On an LCD monitor, which is backlit, white is the default pixel colour. the basic idea for LCDs is that the pixels turn to block the light- fully blocking the light and using the most power is black.
So blackle uses MORE power on LCD monitors than regular Google. The claimed power saving works only on CRT monitors.
However, if you really dig the colour scheme, blackle might be for you.
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tech practical joke?
Either someone at Google has an evil sense of humour, or it is just a random coincidence. I was loading a Google doc, which failed to load. The error message said something like: “the page has failed to load, please press Ctrl + F5 to refresh” (and, yes, I wish I had taken a screen shot- you’ll just have to take my word for it.)
Now, the problem with this is on my G3 Power book, this key combination turns on the numlock. Which makes the regular keyboard turn into a number pad. Why not just say “refresh the page”?
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teenage affluenza
teenage affluenza is spreading fast is an awesome World Vision parody video on Youtube. What makes it great is that World Vision themselves have made this video, which really makes you think.
Teenage affluenza is spreading fast- what are you going to do?
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hmm
Ah yes- blogging. I’ve been busy this past week with my Dad being visiting, and before that I was just plain lazy. I’ve got some interesting topics rolling around in my head, but these need some more thought.
Blogging is something I enjoy, but I just haven’t done much of anything recently… such is holidays. 