Thursday, December 13, 2007

Blackle

Hey, did you know it costs less in megawatt energy hours to use a dark screen? My younger brother introduced me to Blackle.com (Powered by Google.com) just this week. He informed me of this energy saving tip. Being a lover of Mama Earth I jumped on board and switched my homepage to Blackle. Same information, dark screen. Click here if your're curious about seeing a pix of my handsome young brother, he looks like a young Randy Travis.

Upon reading the info provided by Blackle.com I thought I'd give darkening my blog a go. I try to be conscientious of my choices in order to preserve the Earth that I so love but I don't want to be a pest to those who do read my blog so the question is this:

1) Does it bother to you read against a dark background??
2) Will you consider using Blackle.com in an effort to conserve energy and therefore Mama Earth?

Here's the tag: Blackle.com...saving energy one search at a time (THEY TOLD ME TO SAY THAT!)

7 comments:

angela said...

hello there! i switched mine to a darker background for these very reason. not sure where i got my info from (it was a search that lead me on a long reading of savings energy). no problems with the colors and reading for me.
welcome to the dark side, ha :D

daisies said...

oh interesting .. i had no idea .. must investigate further :)

dark screen doesn't bother me and i am doing a redesign for january so i may just switch as well :)

Unknown said...

Well I LOVE your background...I am sure that you know why :)
Is your brother the one in the first pic?

Tam I Am said...

Hi Tori~
Yeah, my brother is the one in the first pix. I think he is wearing a blue shirt.

Thanks for the thumbs up on the dark background.

admin said...

I use the Carbon Neutral Search Engine which also offers black background search using Google Custom Search but offsets a minimum of 100g of CO2 per search, a nice extra little incentive.

Susan Tuttle said...

Hi There!
Enjoying the snow?--lots and lots here to play in!

It doesn't bother me at all to read your text on the darker background.

Susan
xo

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