Go to the light!

Big changed in Europe this week with the sales of old incandescent light bulbs being banned.

From Tuesday 1st September 2009 it will be illegal to sell opaque or pearl incandescent light bulbs, you will for a while still be able to purchase the clear ones, the candle ones, etc until they are phased out in a year or two.

There are a lot of people moaning about being forced to change but just look at the facts.

These new compact fluorescents last so much longer, often up to 8-10 years. That is a fact as I have had them since they came out, back then they were a lot more expensive.

Now you often get them for free from your local electricity company or at least for only a pound ($1-2) from most shops. Unless your unlucky or stupid enough to pay more!

Now the main point, who the hell would want to purchase a light that cost them so much to run?

I estimated that an average family would spend somewhere around £24.52 ($60) on lighting a year.

And if they simply switched their bulbs, a quick plug and go, they would pay only £4.50 ($10) a year!

I'm not a professor of mathematics but even if my figures are a bit out these are massive savings.

Not only to your pocket but to all that waste, all that coal and gas and oil that will be burned to fuel these idiots.

So get off your fat asses and change those bulbs now.

It will help all of us and you will save lots of money too.

You would literally have to be mad not to!



(Sure there are a VERY few people that are sensitive to the flickering, very few and those people will still be able to buy the old bulbs, that is a medical condition, so no issues there from me. As a medical product in a niche market of course the price will go up, but then that is to be expected)

I just get tired of those that try and play the King Canute role, the tide is coming in folks, get boots or get wet feet!

How Apple can continue to beat Microsoft

Apple is getting near to the point where Microsoft started to fail and here is my take on it.

Microsoft was everyone's favourite company, cast your mind back I know it was a while ago! :-)

They innovated but most importantly they listened.

They listened to the people that bought their software, they listened to all the new things they wanted, all the changes their users thought needed to be made.

And they made that software and they made those changes, until....

....someone said, hey wait, we can make money by making it difficult.

And that was the end.

They realised that by making their software less intuitive, less responsive, less useable you would need to employ a Microsoft Certified Engineer.

And they could charge to train those engineers.

And they could charge for supporting companies, and they could charge for so many things.

And they forgot all about the user.

They forgot where their actual revenue stemmed from......the user.

And that was indeed the end.

Another company rose up and listened to their users.

That company was Apple.

So Apple, do you keep listening, with Snow Leopard you continue to add and update by listening to your users.

Sure sometimes you have to make a decision on something and some people won't like it but if you seriously cockup and eventually change then thats ok, we are all human.

Only never stop listening or you will become the next Microsoft.....for sure!

Who could wait for the Snow Leopard?!

Yes, I am an Apple WHORE!

The minute I knew that Snow Leopard was available I placed my order.

I have no shame!

LOL

Actually I have tried the Snow Leopard and it is noticeably faster than Leopard.

So my recommendation of course....go get it!!!!

I mean its £25 here in the UK after all.

Less than an evenings heartburn from the local takeaway!

LOL

Wonder if Archerr has his ordered yet?

Good news, and maybe not so much

Well I did not have to close the old station down like I said. In honesty I did close it, then open it, then change it then run it for a it before selling it.

So the thing made me some money which is nice, not enough to buy me that island I wanted. (Don't worry Kim Beaver I didn't get enough to buy the Faeroe Islands, I would have let you stay...the rest of the people however, maybe not, LOL, unless they were nice to me.)

Talking about the Kim Beavers, I watched a new episode of Coast on the BBC HD's the other day all about the Faroe Island's in the HDs. Very nice, stunning scenery, if you get a chance to catch it when it comes your way take a look. Lots of interesting facts about wartime in the Faeroe Islands. Then a bit about St.Olaf/Olav's day, etc. I might even have seen Kim's place...ooooh!

Like Archerr I suffer from the GERD and it's been getting worse lately so someone is going to shove something big and black greased up and shoved down my throat, Big Fatty calm yourself! An endescope, I said calm yourself! So some poor fool is going to be poking around inside my throat and stomach, gawd knows what they might find in there, couple of tires, an old boot, the crew of the Marie Celeste! So wish me luck, might be a week or two before I get the appointment through, its not an urgent procedure apparently.