Snow Leopard $30 not well spent
I have just had to turn off my router for the second time this morning because the wifi has not worked reliably since I upgraded to snow leopard on my macbookpro.
Excel was routinely crashing my laptop too. I had to fix that – what a pain. Snow leopard looks the same as previous and at the moment is more unreliable.
ALSO something I am really annoyed with is that the multi-touch touchpad which I got the distinct impression would now work with 4 finger gestures is not compatible with my laptop. hmm Well I have 1 finger gesture of my own.
hmm
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This is the first time I have ever bought an operating system. I won’t be doing it again
hmmf
Energy Efficient light globes are harmful
I have long suspected that the claims made for energy efficient light globes is nonsense so armed with google I did a bit of research
The claim for energy efficient globes (Compact fluorescent lamp)
- More environmentally Friendly
- Use less electricity
- As good as existing light globes
- Last Longer
Let me take these items one at a time
More environmentally Friendly
These bulbs are much more energy and resource intensive to manufacture and they also contain mercury making them difficult to dispose of properly.
These bulbs are much more energy and resource intensive to manufacture and they also contain mercury making them difficult to dispose of properly.
Use less electricity
They do use less electricity however they are basically using the same technology as old fashioned fluorescent strip lights and they share the efficiency profile of these. If you turn these lights and never turn them off they use about a quarter of the energy of a conventional bulb. However if you turn your lights on and off frequently (like we do) then the efficiency goes right down because these bulbs (just like fluorescent strip lights are a lot less efficient when being turned on and off).
As good as existing light globes
As good as existing light globes
I hate the light from these (the wave spectra is different). They also take a while to get to full brightness. They have also been shown to cause epilepsy and they can buzz. The EPA take the safety and disposal of these pretty seriously if you break one you need to evacuate the room for 15 minutes and dispose of the bulb in a glass jar
Last Longer
I suspect if you have a modern house with electrics then they would last longer but I frequently have these (expensive) babies blow on me. Also as they get older they get less bright. The life is also dramatically shortened by turning them on and off.
SOURCES – WIKIPEADIA
NEWS ARTICLES
Australian Tsunami
NSW, Victoria Lord Howe Island and NZ were on Tsunami alert yesterday! I watched the unfolding events using tweetdeck – it was fascinating!
“The weather bureau says east coast beaches may experience abnormal wave conditions today after a tsunami warning was cancelled overnight.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of New Zealand last night prompted the Bureau of Meteorology to issue a tsunami warning for parts of the east coast.” FULL ARTICLE HERE
Inspiration into action
I was watchng this the other day
Its inspirational so much so I sorted out the garden – I will do a proper blog entry later in the week
Greening the desert
These guys bought 10 acres of land in a desert and made it green – this is fascinating
