I did until five minutes ago. Until I read:

Kill your stupid screen saver. In the good old days of tube monitors, screen savers such as those unforgettable flying toasters were invented to prevent burn-in, a permanent shadow branded into the phosphors of your monitor by a static image of, say, a spreadsheet that you left on your screen all weekend.

Well, flat-screen LCD monitors don’t burn in, so if you still have flying toasters or an endlessly looping slide show of your adorable niece and nephew, you’re behind the times. When you’re not sitting in front of your monitor it should be off off off.

It warmed my heart to read at Green Daily that Telstra, the biggest phone company in Australia, has removed all the corporate screen savers from

the 36,000 computers in its offices. What will happen? The change will cut tons of CO2, which they claim will be the equivalent of taking 140 cars off the road for a year. Good on ya, mate.

As soon as I found out that screen savers waste power on flat screen monitors, I went into the control panel, clicked the Display icon and the screen saver tab and found a button called Power that lets me turn the monitor “off off off” when I’m not using it.

I did it because my monitor looks like the model in the top photo. (But if your monitor looks like the one in the bottom pic, the one sitting at the curb, then keep the flying toasters.)