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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Is it “green” to keep my computer on all the time if it heats the house?

Saturday, November 21, 2009

It’s a simple question, Norm: does a computer take the same amount of power as an electric heater does to produce the same amount of heat?
Am I, in these winter months, justified in never shutting down my machine because I’m actually benefitting from the massive amount of heat this monster Mac Pro belches out?

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I’ve Unsubscribed to Wired’s RSS

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Wired, you were really interesting and useful for a long time, but things have changed in the last year or so. You’re on the back end of the wave.
I’m unsubscribing because this is the majority of Wired’s content and I find none of this useful:

Look at this pretty NASA photo
Try to find our reporter! [...]

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Chapel Hill FAILS!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

It’s always good to see your local community featured in prominent blogs.

Though, this isn’t the first time. Remember those crazy bike trails in the woods near Chapel Hill High School? This picture is from there (incidentally, very close to where I proposed to Meredith!):

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