The internet is useful for connecting to the world. It allows you to keep in contact with friends near and far, share information, provides endless sources of information and even opportunities to meet new people and make friends.
Of course it does have it’s faults but on the whole I wouldn’t be without it and [...]
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100 Photos 37 :: The Internet
9 Comments CherryPie on Sep 11th 2010
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Weight Loss – Week Six
This week I lost 1lb and reached my 5% weight goal which means I have lost 5% of my starting weight. Now I just need to keep focused and keep up the good work. I also volunteered to help out at the Weight Watchers meetings so today I was helping with the membership [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Sep 9th 2010
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Weight Loss – Week Five
This week I managed to lose the 1.5lb that I put on last week. *Phew*
I have had a bit of a hassely day with my brother who was trying to set up some new technology for me. It should have been fairly simple but there was a need to call customer services and those [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Sep 2nd 2010
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One of Those Days!
It has definitely been one of those days. This morning my printer wasn’t working, the light was on but nothing was happening! I fiddled around with the leads and ran some tests but it was staying offline. On closer inspection I realised that after my last minute visitors had vacated the room [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2010
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Failing Technology
About a month ago my BT connection failed. I was alerted to the fact by my brother who said he had been ringing for hours and no one had picked up the phone. Firstly, it should only ring 4 times because the answer machine is always on and secondly the phone hadn’t rung because I [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2010
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Slime Could Help Engineers
One of the interesting creatures that I learned about when I attended Christopher Lloyd’s lecture at the Royal Institution was the slime mould. He explained how individual pieces joined together to find the quickest, most efficient way through a maze to reach food that had been placed at the entrances. Over at the BBC I [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2010
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The Dreaded…
…500 – Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.
For some reason the server where my blog is hosted decided to stop working on Friday for the second time in 6 weeks! My service provider advise that they provide 24/7 customer support, but I have [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2009
