Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to dormouse_in_tea!!!! Have a great one!!!

Done last week (20100920 Mo - 0925 Fr) :(

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Good grief! Hardly any walking, "Done" posts stacked up in odd corners pining away for lack of attention, ...

It was a pretty busy week at work, though, and a lot of my attention got gobbled up trying to get the new desktop configured. Also, the machine at the post office lied to me on Saturday when I mailed a package. It obviously didn't realize that it was after hours on Saturday, and told me that it would arrive Monday. It arrived Wednesday, causing me two and a half days of useless nail-biting.

I've been really scatterbrained this week. Absent-minded, in the sense of brain thoroughly non-functional. I attribute most of this to stress. I also overate at the Indian buffet again on Thursday, so my weight is back up over 199. GRRR.

My GoLite portable therapy light arrived, with its 66 blue LEDs and, as expected, a mostly-dead rechargable battery. Works fine on the charger, though, and seems to be helping. For $25, I'm not complaining.

I need to get more of the full-spectrum floor lamps. Everybody wants one.

Cutting this a bit short because it looks like a busy day today.

Lots of good links under the cut, of course.

Less power

Some progress has been made on saving power.

Nova, the fileserver, is now using 13% of 260W = 33W, down from 54. That's about $70/year; I was hoping for more.

Trantor, the desktop, is using 9% of 708W = 63W, down from 93. That's more like it: 30W=$105/year savings. Total saving on the swap: 50W=$175/year; total spent so far, $90. Getting the new desktop configured is a non-trivial undertaking, but that part needed to be done anyway because Dorsai's disk was dying. Turning the desktop off when I'm not using it will probably save an additional 50% or so.

I measured the power usage of the living room TV: 2.2W idling, and 37W when running. It's not on full-time, either, so switching to an LCD wouldn't be worthwhile unless I can get a really good deal on one.

The LED therapy light I got used for $25 is only on for an hour or so in the morning; what it really does is free up a full-spectrum floor lamp for someplace else in the house.

Probably the biggest further savings I could make with computers would be using the wireless router as my main firewall. Actually I could probably get a lot of that by going to a solid-state disk. Hmm.