How to lower my carbon footprint – move all the servers to Iceland.

Here’s an interesting article in the BBC’s technical web section: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8297237.stm The gist is this – Iceland has more electricity than it can use, and its produced from geothermal, so there’s no carbon produced by making it.  Plus, the cool temperatures can help keep all those servers cool with no air-conditioning costs.  Iceland is busy…

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Updated – Abott and Costello

You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on…

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch,

“Who’s on first?” might have turned out something like this:

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