Paul Gregory's LJ - Leccyometer

I know there are a few people on my flist (not least Alex) who have previously expressed an interest in a thing that tells you how much electricity something is using in various power states. And you probably know that these things are now available in the catalogues that fall out of the Radio Times and weekend papers, but you're probably unwilling to admit to finding anything useful in them until you're a bit nearer to 40.

But what you may not know is that this Sunday Aldi are selling a Power Meter for £7.99. Which is cheap. I intend to get one while stocks last. It may take a few weeks to work out how much power everything I have takes, but after that y'all are welcome to borrow it if you've not hotfooted it to your nearest purveyor of random import goods to get your own.

Aldi run their site in frames, which means that linking to a product means linking to a page without navigation or context. Their recommend-by-email just has the home page url. Nasty.