From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2009-02-11T14:07:04+09:00 Subject: Re: How to reduce your electricity bill On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:48 PM, John wrote: > How to reduce your electricity bill [snip] > Limited use: Start with the room you are sitting in. If you were to > take a call in another room or join your family at the dining table, > would you just step out of your room without any concern for the > electrical appliances in the room? If you would, stop right there, and > look around. Switch off all the appliances even if you would be back > in five minutes. Yes, even that will help. Every drop of water > constitutes to the ocean. I wrote a simple Ruby script to shut down all the appliances in my computer room when I hit "CTL-ALT-PageDown". Does that help? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.