http://www.beingprimitive.com Life, living, webdesign and fun Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:29:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since the re-design of Nicole’s blog, Tales from Den Haag Side  we have been using a plugin to display avatars of people contributing to the comment section.  A few people have been asking Nicole how to get their picture into the comments section of the blog and she has asked ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/11/20/denhaagside-redesign/ On holiday during August a friend told me that talking about something makes it more real.  I was talking to him about running the trans-alpine run, next September.  It is a 300km race across the European Alps that takes place over eight days.  Basically it is about a marathon a ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/11/20/update/ iMac, originally uploaded by Will Adam. Apologies for the blurry photo, I couldn't keep my hands steady, mainly due to the caffeine overdose mixed with rabid excitement of getting the mac... oh man... it is taking all my will power not to throw the PC I am writing this post on out ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/10/30/imac/ Described by Steve Jobs as "a tour de force of engineering" the Apple notebook event has brought us several new notebooks and an LCD cinema display.  An updated MacBook Air, an aluminium bodied MacBook and a new MacBook Pro as well.  You can read about these in more detail from ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/10/15/apple-notebook-event/   As an avid fan of Grey's Anatomy (bite me, I like it, as well as House and Smallville), I was really pissed off when Amazon sent me Grey's Anatomy Series three with Discs 1&2, twice.  The first eight episodes, twice.  Seven discs in total and someone in packing screwed it up. ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/09/25/greys-anatomy/ Google made their web browser (Chrome) available on the 2nd of September and I have been using it for a couple of weeks now and I thought that a post describing how I find it might be in order.  Chrome, released not that long after Firefox 3, has similar features to ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/09/12/chrome-beta/ I read an interesting blog post today from Lisa Bettany, who was basically asking the question: "Do we really need another NEW iPod?" Apple launched another new iPod flavour yesterday, another nano, that has been re-designed with new features in 16GB and 8GB in a plethora of colors.  It also has the ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/09/10/ipodnano/ Some time ago (June) I was invited to test out the beta version of sliderocket. It is described as "a new application that will transform the way people create, manage, and share presentations on the web". It is basically a better version of PowerPoint on the net, running through Adobe's ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/08/20/sliderocket/ My morning emails are generally a dull affair with amazon trying to sell me more DVD's or catching up with the latest news from the new country.  This morning was more of a shock as an avid twitter user based on their UK SMS number. Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/08/14/twitter-shock/ Recently I have been spending alot of time with a friend that uses facebook quite a lot.  He spent most of last night uploading photographs and replying to people in his profile.  I have never been taken with the idea of facebook for many reasons, in fact the only one reason ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/08/13/passing-on-facebook/