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I really like this game, and playing it with 2 good friends; Wazza and Hechicero.
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WTF? Yeah, well that was my response to the person who told me about the existence of ecology on the internet. As far as I know the internet is one of the most energy-insufficient things there is; millions of servers; websites that run on them and hardly ever have a single visitor? Ok, there are a few websites that have quite a few visitors; but what to think of those pages on the net that hardly anyone ever visits? They all run on servers, and most of them are quite energy insufficient…

So Ecology on the internet? What about it?

It exists. If you have a homepage that is visited regularly and you have a black background (not gray or dark blue, but plain black) you could be the proud owner of a energy-saving site already… The idea is based on the fact that every pixel on the screen needs to be lit in order to produce white light and thus use up a lot of energy. The other way around is true as well: a black website doesn’t need a pixel being lit up in order to render the background and thus saving energy. Strange? Not quite, in fact if Google (you know, the famous search-engine) would use a black background, it’s estimated that worldwide they could save up to 15kW of power each day, which is significant…

I’m not saying google is to blaim because you can easily make an HTML page with a black google search-bar in it (will try and do that on this stie as well); but there already is a site for eco-nerds available if they want to go for it right away: Blackle. It’s using the Google search-engine, but with a twist: searchbar and resultpages are all black and gray…

I don’t feel a need to abandon my google page so all of a sudden, but hey, if someone is inspired; feel free

Bought my wife and myself a little boat to build our club Celestial on… this “thing” gives the term “boat” a whole new meaning…

And yes, the tiny black dot on the upper deck; that’s me…

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Ok, sometimes even the most fervent internet diggers like myself need a little break. And what better way then one of the many thousands of mini-games to be found on the internet?

I personally like to play a game named “Onslaught”, a so called tower-defense game. Your goal is to protect Area 51 with many weapons and, ofcourse, upgrades available on those weapons.

It’s a very adictive game I might add. I can spend many hours whils being online in SL, and upgrading all the turrets and creating combo’s (some towers in combination with others create new weapons). It is of-course the challenge to reach level 500+, Something i almost managed a couple of weeks ago, but never reached again. However, I do not give up hope for this excellent little game…

OK, enough about online entertainment this time, I hope I can find another game soon that will entertain you (the readers of this blog) and me for a few hours to come.

[UPDATE: 11-04-2008 0:11]

I’ve finally made it passed level 500… To level 523 to be precise. On to the 550 Levels barrier…

P.I.M.P. = Player in Management Position :p

PIMP Mus, his assistant the Dickhead and his ho’s… lol

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