5 year fixed rate mortage cheaper than the tracker we have now… wait what… I must have missed something….
right Microsoft, now Sinofsky is going time to get rid of this silly touchscreen experiment on the desktop and work on making your something people want, not that they are forced into.
Ballroom dancing lessons over… Well that was a special kind of hell…
oh well done Microsoft Security essentials… Kaspersky scanner roots out the malware and *then* you notice it… how about when it was downloaded months ago! Just a though…
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/378040/the-cornish-firm-with-britains-fastest-net-connection Cornish company with faster broadband than the entire Olympic park… – The Cornish firm with Britain’s fastest net connection | Broadband | News | PC Pro
is it just me or has Florida still not declared (again?) Can those guys really not count or something?
Well done America, the rest of the world sighs with relief…
feels so sorry for our American friends… it has been bad enough seeing it all over the news on-line. I can’t begin to understand how you have coped with all the TV adverts, the campaigning, the third world debt spent just on TV for that matter. Just hurry up and vote Obama and be done with it…
very funny Facebook… a tiny little update that stopped the code that pulls my status to my own site…
wonders why companies do this… I have a letter from Habitat saying they are going to send me a cheque in the post. Here is something radical… why not just send it!
can’t help but feel that the world has moved to touch-screen devices without ever finishing them or working out the kinks… I still haven’t found a touch-screen keyboard that is even close to a physical one. Why is no-one solving this?
My Dad who has had a beard since well before I was born is going to shave it off for Movember in support of a college with terminal cancer. Please support with anything you can spare. As someone not taking part the least I can do it support those that do: http://mobro.co/fredking1 – Fred King’s Mo Space
is at the Eden Project… Going to have a go in the new zip wire hopefully
roll on a 4 day weekend… anything would do after this week… but that certainly helps…
I’m always finding people wanting to do their bit to save electricity… but some of the ways they do it don’t make sense to me. Further to that some of them are wrong and some of them don’t seem worth the trouble to me.
The following are things I have noticed or tips I have picked up over time.
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You don’t have to switch everything off at the wall. Electricity flows and if it has nowhere to flow to then it stops… If a device is doing nothing (and I do mean nothing) then it will consume no power. Kettle, toaster, electric heater for example all do nothing when not in use (unless you have something fancy with a screen on it).
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Turning off your ADSL router harms your connection speed. Your speed is negotiated between the box in your house and the exchange. The exchange tries to run you as fast as your line will take… but if your line keeps dropping out this is usually down to errors on the line which happen at your limit. As such it will slow your connection speed down to make sure your connection is more reliable. The more your turn it off the slower it gets.
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Never turn printers off at the wall. When you turn them back on they power cycle the cartridges wasting you more in ink than you probably saved in power. If it has a soft on/off switch use that instead.
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When running in standby it means your TV is ready to receive the guide updates as they are transmitted. Ever noticed your guide was not going as far ahead as it should. You probably left the TV off when the updates came round.
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Most devices are cheaper to run on standby than you think. Rough rule of thumb: for every 1 Watt of power it uses on standby you will pay £1 a year for it. So I am quite happy to pay £5 a year for having my TV guide up to date.
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Not everything uses what it says it will. Your TV might say it uses 100 Watts on the back, but this will have been calculated on specific settings. If you turn your brightness down from those settings for example it will consume less power.
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The most expensive devices to run are those that produce heat or have to move something heavy. So electric oven, dishwasher, washing machine, grill, electric heaters, immersion heaters. If you have an economy 7 tariff then your electricity could be about half the price overnight (normally 12-7am or 1am-8am). Running your dishwasher, washing machine and electric heaters most during this time will save a fair bit.
Can anyone think of anything I have missed?