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Euro-fighter Typhoon at Air Show

More Southport Airshow

conkers

Air Show 2009

cool video of the beach

2.o

We are not robots

airmiles

final countdown

I missed this typhoon

The Beach

Hiking with Teosdee

Most whingeing hotel review of the year

Found this review of the silvermine hotel on tripadvisor. I would be surprised if this person has ever enjoyed staying in any hotel.


“Really NOT impressed. Never again!”

2 of 5 stars
LittleMissHolidayFan
London
I stayed for 3 nights and that was more that enough.

The service was just OK. I booked a room for 2 adults and 1 child. Age 5 (listed on booking) I was frustrated on arrival to have no bed in the room for my child. But they did sort in reasonble time. Breakfast was included, but not for the child. This was not listed when I booked so I was not happy at all. It cost £7 for child breakfast. Madness as all she ate was a slice of toast.

The hotel is located just minuites walk from the ferry pier and bus station. But when we arrived by taxi we had to walk down a dark alley at night as its not possible to drive up to the front or side of the hotel. Its not that great to go to disney from. its either a bus and MTR ( at least 1 hour) or a cab (£25-30) There is a mac donalds near by and all the other places to eat are not at all inviting. So the hotel have you trapped a little. But the evening buffet is reasonabley tasty.

The rooms and cleaniness are horid. We booked a room in the new wing...maybe new in 1960. The carpet was stained the wall paper was peeling. There was mould around the bath. The floor was dirty in the corners. Lighting was terrible. Fortunatly the bed sheets were very clean. The only saving grace. It is so dated and the aircon was noisey and the fridge kept making stange tick noises that woke us up each night. ( at least I hope it was the fridge)

Returning at the end of a day was no pleasure. But checking out felt good.

Liverpool 2009

teosdee cycling with boys in Mui Wo

Ode to the beach

Still smoking

Why kids can't 'play out' anymore!

Computers at the speed of light.

I told a group of computer nerds about this technology about a year ago- they all looked at me as if I was crazy.


Super Fast PCs Near As Chip Passes Maths
Test

Super-fast and ultra-small computers have been brought one
step closer to reality with the successful test of a new
penny-sized chip?

Traditional computer micro chips are as small as they are likely to get
The optical quantum chip does away with traditional circuitry and instead uses parti cles of "whizzing" light?
Scientists asked the "photonic" chip to find the prime factors of 15 and although it took longer to work it out than a
schoolchild could have it produced the answer - 3 x 5?
The test is a massive breakthrough because it is the first time the chip.s processin g power has been condensed into
such a small size?
Normally to store the same amount of processing power it would need a pack the size of a work bench sitting beside
it?
The chip could eventually pave the way for "super-powerful quantum computers"?
Cherry Lewisg spokeswoman for the team at Bristol Universityg explained why we need this technology?
"We are almost getting to the point now where conventional computers cannot go any smaller so we need to go
down a completely new route?
"We are talking nano-scale? Particles of light?"
Quantum technology aims to exploit the unique properties of quantum mechanics - the physics theory that explains
how the world works at microscopic levels?
The main advantage is that unlike transistors in a traditional computer quantum particles can be in two states at the
same time?
Also photons are relatively noise-free and can transmit information at the speed of light?
In the near future the technology could eventually be applied to making internet con nections secure and to
developing new materials and medicines?
PhD student Alberto Politig who performed the experiment with colleague Jonathan Matthews said: "Finding prime
factors may seem like a mathematical abstraction but the task lies at the heart of modern encryption schemes
including those used for secure internet communication?"
The results have been published in the magazine Science?

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