http://www.foreverwarm.com Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:39:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft has given Small Businesses a way to skip Vista altogether. It has been confirmed in the report in The Register that PC makers will be allowed to offer "downgrade rights" from Vista to Windows XP for an additional six months, until July 31, 2009. Downgrade rights is a way to ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/windows-xp-downgrade-extended-to-july-31-2009/ Here's how to quickly add RSS feeds to the Windows Vista Sidebar. The Windows Vista Sidebar is the bar of little applets that appears on the right of your screen by default. You cannot add a feed directly to the applet, you must subscribe to it using Internet Explorer, or with ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/how-to-add-an-rss-feed-to-your-windows-vista-sidebar/ The results of The Planet’s “lights out” pilot are in: By adopting a workday-hours lights-on policy and shutting off the lights after hours, the hosting company is saving roughly $140,000 per year across its six data centers in Houston and Dallas. The reduction in annual energy consumption achieved through this ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/flipping-the-switch-saves-the-planet-about-140k-annually/ Glaciers are down, the ocean is up. Here are some details: Europe is losing its Alpine snowmass. Glaciers in Europe have lost 25% of their snowmass since 1980. It’s more than agony for skiers. Huge sections of rock and rubble are leaving their alpine perches, crashing ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/what%e2%80%99s-up-what%e2%80%99s-down-on-our-warming-planet/ Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way — 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are in the works. Welland, ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/canada-adds-another-city-to-led-city-list/ It’s been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can’t imagine using the technology that I’m going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So, ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/something-in-the-air-several-random-wind-energy-updates/ Some of the folks touting hybrid cars–standard fuel plus electric–think their favored technology runs against the plans of T. Boone Pickens. I recently blogged Pickens’ pick of CNG as a great new transit fuel for American drivers. Over at Hybridowners they’re saying electric hybrids and eventually plug-ins will ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/hybrids-v-pickensplan-you-do-the-pickin%e2%80%99/ Which notebook would you rather buy as a consumer, one that comes home with oodles of styrofoam and cardboard and plastic. Or one that ditches the cardboard altogether and even comes with its own messenger bag for you to carry it home in? Both Hewlett-Packard and Walmart are hoping that ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/hp-ditches-the-box-for-walmart-notebook-promotion/ What’s hot? Wind says the MSM and all the ads being sponsored by former oilman T. Boone Pickens. Pickens is going to get lots of play because he can spend lots of money. You may have seen some of his ads. Pickens even got one beknighted ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/what%e2%80%99s-hot-what%e2%80%99s-not-in-energy-land/ Printer maker Lexmark is the first U.S. printer maker to ink (at least publicly and, yes, pun intended) a deal with Close the Loop, a recycling concern that has come up with a patented new use for discarded printing and imaging supplies and other materials it is collecting: the company ... http://www.foreverwarm.com/recycled-ink-cartridges-in-your-garden/