Okay, busted! It's a week of reruns on BusinessBytes. Sue me. I have a family and I want to spend time with them this holiday week.

I hope you're doing the same. But should you find yourself escaping to your computer (to get away from your family, perhaps! I do that too!), here's a reprise of some of my favorite postings of the year and a good way to look back on technology in 2007.

October 4, 2007 Five Reasons Why You Should Turn Off Your PC At Night Posted by Renee Oricchio at 11:00 AM

1. One single PC left on over night during the week and over the weekend creates an additional 920 pounds of CO2 a year. It would take 60 to 300 trees to absorb all of that.

2. It costs up to $15 a month per computer to keep them on after hours. Think about how many PC's you have running in your office and then do the math.

3. Now, add to that cost the extra cost and emissions from the air conditioning system that has to be cranked up after hours and over the weekend to keep all those computers cool.

4. Setting your PC on hibernate isn't good enough. In fact,an estimated one out of two American workers that use a PC on the job think that either their hibernation setting is on when it isn't or it's off and they don't care.

5,Would it kill ya?

(all stats and figures in this posting came from a recent survey, The PC Energy Report 2007, conducted by IE, a software company that develops solutions to automate power usage by computer equipment.)