It`s been a while since the last time I`ve made big changes to the site. Today I`ve switched themes to something lighter, not only in terms of colour but also in functionality. This will improve user experience and performance.

As you already noticed, my blog writing skills are not the best. I can talk for hours but writing a descent article or blogpost is my weakness. Because i`m fully aware of this I will be working on it.

Over the last year I`ve had several occasions where people would steal my intellect / ideas for their own benefit. To avoid this I`m moving development of all my new open source projects into hidden construction phase. this means I`m locally hosting the project planning, source code, issues, feature requests and development releases.

It`s the time of the year when it`s dark outside. What do you do then? Turn on the lights.
And are those LED or energy saving bulbs? Surely not all of them!

The most environment friendly thing to do is to replace a bulb when it`s broken, it`s a waste of money and materials if you replace a working one with a working one.

By the end of the month I have replaced the last regular light bulb with an energy saving one or LED one.

One of my 2016 goals is to reduce my carbon footprint without changing the quality of life.

I will aim for this by doing:

• Replace broken light bulbs with efficient LED based lightbulbs
• Reduce travelling by car and take the bicycle or train more
• Reduce fossil fuel consuption (natural gas) by better controlling the heat in my room using a thermostat and improve isolation
• Monitor and reduce the amount of silent energy users, like PSUs
• Reduce power consumption of my computer(s) by switching from high performance mode to energy efficient mode
• Separate waste better and into more streams
• At work: reduce use of  ozone depleting chemicals and decrease use of polluting chemicals