Does Daylight Savings really save energy?

Don’t forget tonight, you have to set your clocks forward one hour. If you’re like me, your tired of changing the time twice a year. Does it Really save any energy at all? According to recent studies in Indiana, over $8.6 billion USD was spent on extra energy used. What does this mean? This means because of the change, while we actually did save money on lighting, we actually use more energy because of air conditioning and heating. We also might spend more time indoors, thus using more electricity watching tv, playing games, and so on.

I’m gonna go ahead and say it’s still inconclusive. There probably should be a lot more studies done to get more conclusive results. While the study in Indiana is one thing, it’s not the entire country. Perhaps in the future, we’ll find that we don’t have to change the time anymore. Wouldn’t that be a lucky thing?

Do you have to change your clock where you live?

ExpressionEngine 2.0 preview highlights

Ok, since I’m not actually at the SXSW, I don’t get to actually see all the cool things they might have. But a few people have been kind enough to post about some of the things they’ve learned from the previews. First of all, allow me to link you to the EE 2.0 preview photos at David Russells flickr stream. As you can see, they’ve changed the layout of the CP. It looks good! Reminds me a bit of WP 2.5 and Blogger (it’s the orange), but I can live with it.

Some highlights:

1. EE 2.0 will be based on Code Igniter. What this means is that the structure will change. But they’re promising backward compatibility. This is good!

2. jQuery – this should speed things up! We all know that speed and ease of use is their goals for the CP. This will indeed be cool.

I Seriously hope they release and make available the developer edition so we can pretty up our plugins and modules. Not that I think there will be a need for the linklist in 2.0. I’m sure they’ve made something better for it!

More to come as I find things out.

UPDATED: Derek has released some Official EE 2.0 screenshots! You should check them out. Now! What are you still doing here?

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Photohunt : different

St. Louis Arch
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Here is a “different” view of the St. Louis Arch. I took this at the base of the Arch, by the entrance to get on the elevators to go up into the Arch. Yes, you can actually go to the top. But I warn you, it’s not for the claustrophobic or for the light hearted.

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