talk about co-ordination!

(scroll to about 3mins to go)

When your screen is white - an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts.

Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.

http://www.blackle.com/

Use this site as your search engine and do your bit for the planet


NB: The best way to save power is to turn off your monitor and computer at the end of the day!
http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-a-darkened-google-really-save-electricity-104/

...not teasing, that's tahitian for "bye!"

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:37 a.m.
Subject: OMG!

I JUST WON A TRIP TO TAHITI!!!!!

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/zbairtahiti.asp


Possibly the best email I have ever sent from my work email a/c hehe

8.5 months later...

time to jump on the plane again!

woohooooooo here I come 30deg tahiti. bye bye 2deg wellington!!!

Sometimes our light goes out
but is blown into flame
by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer
.4gi.

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
- Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Thank you for being my truest and best friend mum - for your counsel and understanding especially.

Wish you were here so I could put you under my armpit and hug you :)

** New research into consumer behavior has found a link between the height of a room's ceiling and the kind of thoughts a person will have in that room.

"A higher versus a lower ceiling can stimulate the concepts of freedom versus confinement, respectively. This causes people to engage in either more free-form, abstract thinking or more detail-specific thought. Thus, depending on what the task at hand requires, the consequences of the ceiling could be positive or negative."

“When a person is in a space with a 10-foot ceiling, they will tend to think more freely, more abstractly. They might process more abstract connections between objects in a room, whereas a person in a room with an 8-foot ceiling will be more likely to focus on specifics.”

innovations-report.de


**I think making dog and rabbit hand shadows on the wall is cool, but this is awesome - motorcycle


**I like my cocktails, but the "diamond-tini" served at the recently opened Ritz Tokyo is just slightly out of my price range.


For you folks wanting to save a cool 1.8 million Yen (7,250 pounds), you can make it home! All you need is:
- a hint of lime
- chilled Belvedere vodka
- a 1.06-carat stone

And serve with a serenade of "Diamonds are Forever" as a cut stone slides to the martini glass bottom, and later have a local jeweller mount it on a ring.

Claaaaasy!