Matt has the youtube vid. It was brilliant.

h/t MW
By Stilgherrian, admitted ubergeek and former broadcaster
The website Blackle provides a black version of Google.
On the surface it sounds great. “A given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen,” he says about Blackle.
So if everyone turns Google black we’ll save heaps of energy, because [...]

As you can see from the pictures above, Sam and I had a great time holidaying at the Blue Mountains.
Staying at Leura was so relaxing. We rented a gorgeous little cottage near the main street in Leura and our five days consisted of reading Harry Potter 7 (yes to each other, I can’t decide if [...]

Having ideals can be an expensive business.
After seeing pictures of battery hens locked in cramped, metal cages last year, I was determined to buy only free-range eggs – until the supermarket price forced me to relent on my stance a little. The same goes for natural cotton clothes. I would love to be able to [...]

Has anyone else noticed the change in Spectrum in the Saturday Herald of late? They are running more and more stories that are not about plasma televisions or renovated houses (quite a feat in the SMH!). On Saturday just gone they gave a positive review to Amazing Grace, did a piece on the importance of [...]

We heard a brilliant lecture tonight about the abolition of the slave trade in England 200 years ago. This really is worth a download and an hour of your listening time when it comes up on our website. Wilberforce was an amazing man, who stuck to the convictions of his faith. Lots of people like [...]

So far while playing scrabble on facebook, my best word has been ‘bevellers’ for 78 points, followed by ‘harness’ for 72 points. Neither were very high scoring words themselves – it’s just the 50 point bonus for using all my letters that got them up there. What’s are some of your glory moments on facebook [...]

Soph and I are going on holidays to the Blue Mountains tomorrow. We can’t wait! I’m looking forward to having some time off, and reading Harry Potter. Hopefully we’ll both gets lots of sleep too! See you when we get back.

On Wednesday at Bible Study there were only four of us. It seems almost everyone has this dreaded sickness that is going around! So instead of pushing ahead with our regular program, we spent an hour or so dealing with some of the ‘tricky’ narratives in the Old Testament.
Reading Old Testament narrative can be hard. [...]

Something for those worried about energy consumption and all its downsides.
When your screen is white, be it an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts. When its black it consumes only 59 watts. A recent article talked about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black [...]