Apologies for the delay in replying, despite my best efforts I didn't get a chance to try this at work.

The issue I had in accessing the pypi website was resolved once I ran the wget command. Thank you very much. I never predicted I'd get such satisfaction out of lighting up an LED

Hi All, I'm a complete beginner to this and just got my Raspberry Pi today. I followed all the set up instructions available on the adafruit tutorial site, with no errors. I decided to try my first project which is the gmail notifier using LED's available here: http://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi...