energy.dare blog

I went to check energy.dare today and was very happy to find that it was back up.  Hopefully, the folks at the servers have fixed whatever caused that and it will hopefully be a little more stable from now on.  They did mention that they are trying to move the servers, so it might be up and down intermittently, so please bear with me.  But you can always pop by this blog instead to find out what’s happening, and to get connected to energy.dare, either via making comments, or to the Dare bloggers.

You might have noticed that I’ve also decided to try a new colour scheme.  I had informally asked a number of people to review the energy.dare site, and some of the overwhelmingly common responses were that the energy.dare logo (with the dark grey and red) didn’t really fit in with the greens that were used in the side nav bar and the top main nav bar.  I like the logo, and I like grey and red, so hopefully, the new scheme is a little more consistent.  The red pops more, and provides a better contrast with the other colours.  I still have to figure out how to centre the site though…

On other news, I wanted to announce that, in addition to Amanda, karentsang and peejaytee, who have already very graciously volunteered their time to help me in this project, a new blogger, b, has hopped on the bandwagon.  So go check out her energy.dare-related thoughts at baileyanonymous.wordpress.com.

I’m also thinking about providing more prizes.  My professor suggested maybe I could look into some energy-efficient gadgets and things.  What do you guys think?  Any reasonable wish lists?