Month: April 2020

Virtual services – needs must – server overload

My website has benefited in popularity by the fact that people have got more time at home in their isolation and that the subject matter, 5G and the coronavirus, is a matter of interest. My figures are nothing compared with the big sites which have hundreds of thousands of visits per day but I like to think that people who visit my site do so with a purpose. We are told to 'cast our bread upon...

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Faster and faster

To Tesco's to find an orderly line of people, about 40m in length, waiting to be admitted.  I wanted to cut a key for my new car of that particular outlet is closed. To Lidl.  No queues.  Another skeptical person wondering why we have to stand 2 m apart when a puff of wind will blow whatever we have someone else. Françoise went out to visit a neighbour, a lady of 82 years of age.  She had...

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Talk of closing the Internet

These days are a challenge to all of us and the only way you can keep going in my view as a daily diet are the basics of  positive mental activity, a balance between work and play, and a sense of humour and not forgetting decent food.  I received the advice below today from Astrodienst which is a German astrological website. You can get a free daily horoscope and on enquiring I found this...

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