Spam and the Environment

Osieron
Temple of Abydos
Al-Balyana, Egypt (Upper Egypt- Northern Nile Valley)

I just read that spamming harms the environment. According to the Chronicle Herald, McAfee Inc. recently reported that "the amount of energy used to transmit, process and filter spam emails totals 22 billion kilowatt hours annually." Other sources report as much as 33 billion kilowatt hours. I'm not up on my energy readings, but that's like 3.1 million passenger cars using 2 billion gallons of gasoline. Or you know, a madman driving around the world 1.6 million times (these estimates are not my own- see the Chronicle Herald and ArabianBusiness.com)

Hopefully this is enough to stop you *cough* Azher Karimjee *cough* from Chain Mailing me to to death.

Egypt fun fact: All the guards have changed into their summer uniforms- they're all new, too. Brand spanking new white uniforms. Julia's been super excited about them- and I've got to admit- I find the generally annoying Egyptian guards/traffic police/tourist police to be quite dashing all of a sudden.