Re: Fluorescents...
I had the pleasure of meeting a lady from the far east many years ago. She was over on businness with the company I worked for and a few of us took her out for a drink after work. She was very nice (bought a round or two on expenses) and told us a story about her offices. Before they'd first moved in they'd done up the building with an interior designer 'helping'. As a result there was a disgusting multicoloured carpet on each floor. The designer had a specified a different yucky pattern/colour scheme on each floor so you knew you were on your floor. The office design had been done with feng Shui so the Qi energy flowed and other such mumbo jumbo. Only problem was that hadn't helped with the actual energy as the static the carpet generated was considerable. If you touched for example a metal desk after walking across the room you got a sizeable shock. She said it played havoc with the computers too and they had to have the carpets removed and replaced. The replacements were a more sober single colour and generated far less static. Sadly we never got to see any pictures of this multicoloured hell.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
