Did you know that when your computer is in “standby” or “sleep” mode, it consumes almost as much electricity as it does when you are hard at work playing Solitaire? Well, it’s true.
Standby power is also known as “Vampire Power”, on account of the way it “sucks” the “lifeblood” out of your electrical appliances, and also because it sounds a little scarier when you are trying to convince someone to mend their wasteful ways.
So please remember to switch your computer off at the wall before you go to bed for the night. To be extra sure, you may want to drive a wooden stake through your computer’s Power Supply, or rub a little crushed garlic on the motherboard.
Remember, if enough of us this do this on a regular basis, we should be able to save enough electricty to allow Eskom to continue running the big load-shedding computer that decides which of us are going to be without electricity in the morning.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have an urgent game of Solitaire I need to return to.
