bright sparks

Did anyone else note on the 29th March that Google's home page had gone black? Apparently it was for Earth hour - the idea being that everyone was meant to turn off the lights for an hour to help stop global warming.

I see a couple of problems with that:
1) no one knew about it
and
2) in order to spread the word about this 'event' even at a basic level it's clear that quite a lot of energy would be needed to power the broadcast of the message and paper needed to print the message
3) If i was using google, it wouldn't have been in the dark and I would have needed to find info that probably couldn't wait an hour.

Nice idea, but has a similarity to the massive, power consuming, waste creating pop concert last year. I'm assuming that there were lights, amps, mics and all the usual paraphernalia that go with such events and that the pop stars weren't just throwing their voices?

I'm all for saving the planet, but I think we need to focus on not spending more energy in spreading our ideas that would have been used in an average day anyway.

something of a dilema

Now I know this is not the end of the world, but I have a problem. I've double booked myself.

I thought I was being all clever and spontaneous and a few weeks ago I booked tickets for Mr JoLucy and myself to go and see the Zutons in Delamere forest. Problem is, we've also got tickets for England/New Zealand cricket on the same say and I'm really hoping the Freddie will be back in the team and playing by then.

Upshot is, it seems we may be about to miss out on the Zutons in favour of a cricket match.

what has become of me?

(Anyone want to buy my tickets off me?)