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| Cut Down Your Electricity Bill | |||
| 11.29.06 (8:15 pm) [edit] | |||
 Are you spending so much time on tblogs that you receive a high electricity bill? While browsing the internet I came across a freeware which minimizes this problem. The software, Local Cooling – “Fight Global Warming from your Desktop”, saves energy by automatically optimising the computer’s power settings and introduces a more effective power save mode, “meaning savings on electricity bills for the users, and therefore a reduction in the amount of Greenhouse gases that result from [generating electricity for] powering a computer”. The cool thing about the software is a small panel with three counters. The amount of kilowatt hours saved since the programme was installed on the particular pc lets one calculate the money saved. The other two counters translate the kilowatt hours into barrels of oil that would have been used to generate that electricity, as well as the number of trees that will be saved with the reduced greenhouse gases that the energy saving brought about. But it does not stop there. The company, Uniblue Systems, launched a non-commercial website www.localcooling.com, which does not only allow free downloading of the energy saving software, but also brings together the energy saving results of each user and compiles collective results. In fact, after its first few days of operation, Local Cooling users have already saved around 550 gallons of oil and 60 trees. Users can sign in for an account on localcooling.com, and their energy savings will be added to those of other registered users. Moreover, companies and offices can set up team or company accounts, and have the aggregate savings of their group calculated by the website. The website also puts users in competition, by listing the “Top 100 League Tables of the biggest savers worldwide”. There are three such lists – Top saving teams, top saving companies, and top saving individuals.
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| Strange Phobias |
| 11.22.06 (12:18 pm) [edit] |
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Thought of writing about something light this time. For those of you who do not know what a phobia is, it can be defined as "fear of something". Here are some strange ones: Unatractiphobia is when a person fears ugly people and Hippopotomonstrosesquippe daliophobia is, strangely enough, a fear of long words. Sex becomes a bit complicated when one suffers Nudophobia, which is fear of nudity whilst fear of spiders is arachnophobic, a condition suffered by many people, including Johnny Depp. Not many men seem to suffer from venustraphobia, which is a condition where you are afraid of beautiful women contrary to unatractiphobia, where you are afraid of ugly people. Apparently there are also people who suffer from chrematophobia, a fear of money and from sexophobia, a fear from the opposite sex. Many youngsters don’t seem to suffer from methyphobia, which is the fear of alcohol. Orlando Bloom suffers swinophobia, which is fear of pigs and his Hollywood counterpart Nicole Kidman suffers from Lepidopterophobia, fear from butterflies. Hopefully, catholics are not victims of papaphobia, a fear of the pope. Curiously, Somniphobia people suffer from a condition where they’re afraid of sleep and ailurophobia, a condition suffered by Julius Cesear, Alexander the Great, Benito Mussolini and Napoleon Bonaparte, is the fear of cats. Funnily enough there is also phobophobia, a fear of phobias. Do you have any? |
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| Hackers ... What About Them? |
| 11.19.06 (1:20 pm) [edit] |
| The definition of a Hacker that is most widely considered as correct is a person that is highly annoying. Often times talking about hacking and ways of hacking for hours and hours, debating ways to snoop other peoples computers. This is usually mistaken for someone that performs malicious or illegal tasks using a computer. Usually, hackers are school drop-outs. Yet, they manage to dismantle systems which a team of preogrammers whose most members hold a Masters would have constructed. This clearly shows how skillful and intelligent a hacker is. This clearly shows that education does not cater for the best people but only for the parrot-like students. Their actions are surely condemnable. But what if isntead of being sent to jail, their talent is used for the good. Surely that would give a boost to the security issues in IT. |
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| Should Females be Allowed to Referee Male Football? |
| 11.13.06 (4:26 pm) [edit] |
| Hot-headed Luton manager Mike Newell has just been labelled as a sexist for making his opinion about women refereeing public. He accused women's involvement in refereeing as a "tokenism for the politically-correct idiots". Ok, that's not the kindest comment you could pass ... Still, Newell is a person to admire since he expressed himself without fear of being ridiculed, even though that comment came in a post-match press conference after a defeat against QPR. I agree with him up to a certain point. I think that women referees should only referee in female championships while that males referee the males championships. By mixing the lot, you're only inviting trouble. I mean, if you like a player of the opposite sex you'll be more lenient with her/him. So, now I guess you'll call me a sexist too ... |
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| The Death Penalty in America |
| 11.06.06 (5:04 pm) [edit] |
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In America, the best way to steal a life is by learning 1000s of laws by heart - becoming a court judge. That gives them power to condemn any person to death without facing the risk of ending up in jail themselves. I still can't figure out how such an advanced country, the USA, adopts such medieval measures in its courts. What's the point of sentencing a person to death rather then putting him to jail for life. In neither case will he be of a threat to society since he will not be in contact with it. Life is invaluable. Nobody has the right to take another person's life no matter what the latter did. |
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| Online Info - It's a Question of Trust |
| 11.03.06 (10:32 am) [edit] |
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The World Wide Web is surely the richest info resource, and is one of the most accessible nowadays. Though, when using it one must be cautious since the truth is not always expressed. Just like checking the author of a book, the internet user should check out the author of the web site on which the info he is accessing is published in order to assess whether he can rely on it or not. Blogging is one way info is misinterpreted or expressed out wrongly since it is being written from the blogger's view. So when reading out blogs, one should keep in mind that what he is reading is above all the opinions of a person about a particular happening or theme. So before spreading out rumours, check them out with reliable sources, such as the BBC or Wikipedia. |
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