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  Brent Logan

  1 year ago

  Fineprint is a great piece of software that allows you to easily preview your printouts, delete pages you don't want printed, control double-sided printing, and print up to 8 pages per side of page. it even keeps track of the number of sheets you've saved.
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  Jake

  1 year ago

  Very cool. I rarely print much anymore, working from home and all, mostly boarding passes.
  
  The whole separator page thing is funny b/c I recall a few years ago when I was in an office, they went through a whole "duplex, it saves trees" thing, which was great. I always wondered why we couldn't also save trees by dumping the separator page.
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  jgarry

  1 year ago

  I remember the first Earth Day, sitting in English class listening to the chattering and thinking "this could be good, but how much of it will wind up being hypocritical?"
  
  This morning I'm listening to the radio, and the dj is going on about the governator getting out of a new Dodge Challenger with the big Hemi and being hypocritical... (google if you haven't heard, yes, I'm envious).
  
  I can't help thinking of what will happen with all these hi-tech car batteries when they get old, or are defective - you thought exploding laptops were bad... not to mention all the extra energy used shipping them all around...
  
  And those effing flourescents... they're hazardous waste!
  
  But what really cheeses me off is the corporate hype. I won't even depress everyone with that rant. When it comes down to it, sustainability is what is important, and our basic economy is not built to support that, either locally or globally. Scarcity is the root of all economics, and now people are going, duh, we're going to run out of gallium...
  
  Hey, remember the paperless office?
  
  Speaking of colors, those tag clouds, could they imply a dimension of how recent the postings, with color of the tag indicating the date ordering? Red, someone's posted recently, blue old, etc.
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  Jake

  1 year ago

  Good points, sustainability chief among them. I hadn't thought about batteries, good point.
  
  I'm also a bit underwhelmed by all the hype cycles right now. We all know Detroit could have gone electric in the 80s if they had been sufficiently motivated.
  
  The internal combustion engine is the punch-card reader of technology. Seriously, car engines haven't even jumped to the mainframe era yet. Why? No motivation to advance.
  
  I'm not sure about the tag cloud. Because they aggregate all posts, time isn't a dimension. I've not seen a tag cloud applied to time. If you have an example, let me know, and I'll take a look.
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  jgarry

  11 months ago

  Example? Maybe it would be a new idea! :-)
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  Jake

  11 months ago

  Hmm, you may be on to something. I think it would need a pager to show how the cloud changes over time, probably by month. Interesting idea. Maybe Matt Topper or Eddie Awad can hack something together using their PHP-fu.
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  Georgi

  1 year ago

  Well, actually the 'green' signature is now
  http://www.oracle.com/dm/design/corp/misc/green...
  with the text 'Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment'
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  Jake

  1 year ago

  I borrowed the image in the post from TechCrunch. I have seen the new green signature, but it was a little small to capture.
  
  I wonder if using it makes my email greener.
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