Why White Why Not Black

This post has nothing to do with racism et al.

Sometime back, I read an article which said something like this, approximately:
The person who wrote the article suggested that Google pages should be black in background, since black pages take less power (electricity), to be displayed. And there was a comparison of the watts that could be saved etc.

I appreciate the suggestion in all earnestness.

But talking about pages with dark backgrounds etc, an avid blog-reader like me, (it still will take a long time to call myself an avid blogger), will find it particularly repulsive when pages have dark/colourful backgrounds and effects. I am myself planning an overhaul of my blog, but that has to wait till I get to my laptop in India, where I have the necessary equipments (read softwares) to play around. Carrying an office laptop restricts the extent to which we can play around.

Coming back to the topic, if what I see is true, the people who use/read blogs are mostly professionals, who use the net at office more than at home.
And when I open a blog, or for that matter, any page whose content is perfectly acceptable at an office environment, but has glaring backgrounds and colours, it makes it more difficult to live the fact that I am reading non-work related stuff at office, and I become more conscious of the people around me, and I tend to close the page though I would have loved to continue reading.

Especially today, when I have absolutely no work until someone decides to share his/her workload with me, I wanted to catch up with a lot of blogs that I havent had the time to read. But I see that these pages have been altered, and have really glaring and sometimes distasteful backgrounds. And immediately it becomes difficult for me to continue reading.

And for a person sitting at the UK, in an office where I see everyone so busy with work (I think so), I feel a bit guilty of my free time.
Having white/light backgrounds make the articles look more office-friendly, and people like me would really appreciate being able to read lovely articles to make the otherwise free time, well spent.

So, I extend a gentle request to all those bloggers/web-page developers out there, as long as the page doesnt need the glamour, kindly try and reduce the glaring designs.

Thank you.