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Every day in the savannas and forests of Africa, elephants are being gunned down for their ivory tusks. Across the continent, tens of thousands of these majestic animals are being slaughtered each year. In many places the species has already been poached to extinction. If we don’t act now there may be no wild elephants left. – WWF 474,419 of us have put our names on a (WWF) letter to the Thai Prime Minister, asking for her to ban the Thai ivory trade. Maybe you should consider joining us…

What’s one piece of technology you cannot live without?

Published by Christiana

(a.k.a. Post a Week 5 ~ 24-30/01/2011) Let me start by saying: I’m a big gadget freak. HUGE! Which basically means there is an ever- growing list of pieces of technology that put a smile on my face and make my life a lot easier &/or cooler. If I really had to narrow it down, though, the one thing that I could absolutely not live without would be my laptop (+ an ADSL connection). The reason is very simple, really: I do, practically, everything on it on a daily basis. From my day job, to my personal finances, my social networking and entertainment, my environmental sensibilities, my shopping sprees, my actual relationship – my computer screen is where it’s all happening. And yes, I fully realize the above may sound a bit weird so let me clarify. I do have a real life, out in the non-pixel.ated world. I can do my job (albeit much slower) without using a computer. I sometimes go to bank (and physically queue for hours on end) to pay a …