Turn off the lights

HSBC, the worlds fourth richest company (with an incomprehensible 1.8 trillion dollars in assets), is making the news by boasting about their newly-acquired eco-credentials. It dawned on them last year that they could boost their profits by automatically switching off desktop computers at night, which is a fantastic move (perhaps they could open source the software?), but it does makes me wonder when they’ll realise that switching off the lights at their 1-million-square-foot, 42-story, Canary Wharf skyscraper might be good for the planet (not to mention their bulging assets) too?

Posted by Olly on July 17, 2007 at 8:00 am in environment, london, news
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Friday links - 6th July 2007

From this week’s surfing…

• Google Maps Mobile. Make sure you have enough download credit — it’s not exactly bandwidth-lite.
• phpMyID. Set up and run an Open ID server for your own domain in five minutes.
• 100% renewable power for the UK by 2027 might be possible according to the Centre for Alternative Technology. Shame this is also 100% unlikely to happen.
• The Beastie Boys hook back up with Money Mark and get on down for The Mix Up
• Hero Cabbie: Police Took My Good Nike Trainers. Hilarious. As is this.
• A new neologism entered my vocabulary. I do a lot of yak shaving.
• Coding Horror. Fantastic articles by the dozen from Jeff Atwood.
• RailsConf Europe. Roll on September.
• Yes, I want one too.

Posted by Olly on July 6, 2007 at 4:20 pm in links
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