Quit IM-ing your BFF and engage in a greener waste of time: hitting the following links!

Dell OptiPlex 755 Lets Buyers Go Green, Save Green - Small Business Computing

Dell's Regeneration Challenge - Dell (Press Release)

Factor sustainability into your SaaS decision - InfoWorld

SNIA forms green coalition - The Register
Related: Storage sector needs to think greener

Lastly, Ubuntu 7.10 "Gusty Gutsy Gibbon" is officially out in the wild. If you have a machine with modest specs that crawls under Windows, consider giving it a new life with Ubuntu. I tried Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" and aside from a modest learning curve, it excelled as a general purpose (Web, email, light multimedia) desktop OS.

Gusty Gutsy Gibbon, by the smattering of reports I've seen online, is a big improvement. Plus, it now incorporates new a newer tickless idle kernel for increased energy efficiency. No harm in trying...

Update: Yay for proofreading! Not once, but twice did I write "Gusty Gibbon", which is fine and dandy for built-in spell checkers but not for a seasoned editor like me. So I apologize to the Ubuntu crew for calling their fine OS a gassy little monkey.

Yes, it's been that kind of day...