I was dismayed to read the story of the bear who got shot after being stuck for a week with a jar on his head.
On the part of the “local wildlife supervisor”, who claimed that they couldn’t tranquilize the bear because it “stayed in forested areas” (like duh), I think that’s a pretty lame excuse. Somehow they managed to shoot it dead just fine – how come it was so hard to hit it with a tranquilizer dart?
So, here I am on the train heading home from Glasgow and I’m connected up to the internet via my mobile phone and blogging from a compact little laptop. My phone has never left my pocket because the connection between the two is Bluetooth and when the laptop connects to it, the phone connects to the internet.
The laptop is a new Eee PC 1000H I picked up. Stupid name, but perfect for the amount of travelling I’ll be doing in that it fits in a small bag, yet comes complete with wireless LAN, the aforementioned Bluetooth, and a built in webcam should I have the need for it. Plus it’s running Windows XP and has enough power to run everything I need it to.
It might be about eight years late, but this is the future as far as I’m concerned, but without the foil jumpsuit promised by Tomorrow’s World and the rest of them when I was a kid.
I like it.
Throw in an electric car of some sort – heck, it doesn’t even have to hover – and this would be the business!
I thought just about every possible space left on the green bandwagon had been grabbed, but not so; Sitepoint has 10 tips on how to be a greener web designer.
Okay, so I know it’s a niche site for web professionals, but seriously, WTF is that all about?
Are there guides out there for other professions, I wonder?
From How to be a greener lumberjack;
From How to be a greener narcotics runner;
From How to be a greener president of the United States;
But I digress.
In the web designer equivalent there are no-brainer gems, such as using an LCD monitor to reduce your carbon footprint. Unfortunately that’d only be greener and truly beneficial to the environment if the production of those LCD’s did not emit nitrogen trifluoride. (Flat Screen TV’s Worse for the Environment)
Hey, I’m all for being more environmentally friendly. If I was Gordon Gecko, Green is Good would be my motto. I have a small, economical car when what I’d really like is a sports car. I take the train to work. I recycle. I consume organic produce. Admittedly I’m counting beer as organic produce here, but the sentiment is there.
However, I think the whole green message is lost in the noise when it’s taken to extremes. Not only that, when I’m being told to green-up on a site I’d only usually go to for articles related to web development, well, it somewhat ironically counts as pollution.