Thursday February 24, 2005

SunRay Power savings

Michael Jordan did an interesting posting today. He pointed out that utility cost make up for about 10% of a corporate real estate budget, about as much as property tax. It reminded me of something that some people may not raealize. SunRays save an enormous amount in utility costs. Instead of running a computer in my office all I have is basically a monitor. It makes no noise, it doesn't heat up the office and it uses a very small amount of electricity. Sun has more than 27,000 SunRays deployed which results in over $24 million saved annually. Of that $2.8M is electric power costs.

Do you have to be a techie to blog?

I just ran into a co-worker who is planning to start a blog. We were talking about how daunting it can be. There are all sorts of things that aren't intuitively obvious. I know when I started I basically just played around until I figured stuff out. That is what he has been doing too.

I'm sure that when non bloggers read a blog like mine they wonder what the heck a permalink is.The answer is: If you copy the permalink you will get the permanent URL for this posting. You can use it to insert a link to my posting in your blog. If you just used my blog URL you would always get the most recent posting not the specific one you want to point to.

And how do you format your entries? You need to know a tiny bit of HTML which is really easy but how do you figure it out? I found this posting from Geoff Arnold that was really helpful. I also have an email I'll send to anyone who wants it. It lists the tags you need for paragraphs, bold, italics and linking. I'd put them here but then I'd have to figure out how to make the blogging software show them and not interpret them. I know it can be done I just don't have time today to figure it out.

If I tell someone a web address or my email address today most people know what I'm telling them. But not too long ago if I gave someone a web address or my email address they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I wonder if blogging will eventually get to the point where talking about your RSS feed or your aggregator (like Bloglines) will mean something to more than 1% of the population.