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There is an interesting blog about energy and efficiency at http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/. The author has some very detailed articles about finding the causes for high energy consumption and eliminating them that might be applicable to your situation. He managed to consume about half of a "typical house" in his neighborhood.
For a Bit of Colored Ribbon
For the last year or so, I've been getting these two page energy assessment reports in the mail from Pacific Gas & Electric, our California utility company, comparing our household's energy use to those of the houses around us. Here's the relevant excerpts from the latest report; click throug...
What about Valve? Their official company policy is not 20% time for personal projects, but 100%. It is still fascinating to me that with that and their flat company structure* they still manage to ship so many great products (not just single game projects, but things like Steam).
*: "...we don’t have any management, and nobody “reports
to” anybody else. We do have a founder/president, but
even he isn’t your manager." - Valve: Handbook for new employees
Today is Goof Off at Work Day
When you're hired at Google, you only have to do the job you were hired for 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time, you can work on whatever you like – provided it advances Google in some way. At least, that's the theory. Google's 20 percent time policy is well known in software engineeri...
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