Today's rants, 29 May 08
First:
What's with this insipid logo? (Not picking on this one particularly; there've been several of late, turning an originally cute idea into too cutesy, too often):
Is Google loosing the plot? Did it ever have one? How many good ideas/songs/books can one person have before it all starts to unravel?
Second:
With Guambat's power bill tipping out over $1,000/month (Guam has a horrible power generation issue; see this and this and this and this), Guambat has been crawling around the townhouse looking for things to turn off. I mean turn OFF.
Not possible. It seems that every appliance that plugs into a power mains has some kind of gizmo or other (useless digital clocks being a big culprit, especially on Guam where there are so many power bumps that having a digital clock at all is as useless as an outdoor ice-skating rink).
So, this rant is, WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE ELECTRICAL GOODS WITH AN OFF SWITCH THAT REALLY MEANS OFF?
What's with this insipid logo? (Not picking on this one particularly; there've been several of late, turning an originally cute idea into too cutesy, too often):
Is Google loosing the plot? Did it ever have one? How many good ideas/songs/books can one person have before it all starts to unravel?
Second:
With Guambat's power bill tipping out over $1,000/month (Guam has a horrible power generation issue; see this and this and this and this), Guambat has been crawling around the townhouse looking for things to turn off. I mean turn OFF.
Not possible. It seems that every appliance that plugs into a power mains has some kind of gizmo or other (useless digital clocks being a big culprit, especially on Guam where there are so many power bumps that having a digital clock at all is as useless as an outdoor ice-skating rink).
So, this rant is, WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE ELECTRICAL GOODS WITH AN OFF SWITCH THAT REALLY MEANS OFF?
posted by Guambat Stew at Thursday, May 29, 2008
1 Comments:
Hey - look for one of those power strips like this sort of thing:
http://www.greenecosavers.com/servlet/the-33/ENERGY-SAVING-SMART-STRIP/Detail
One outlet controls most of the others, so if that (eg TV) is turned off, it turns off the other outlets - so DVD player and speakers perhaps get turned off properly.
It works for me - I have two, one for the TV and associated stuff, and another for the desktop PC.
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