http://www.beingprimitive.com Life, living, webdesign and fun Wed, 14 May 2008 10:26:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Opera Mini 4.1was announced yesterday, and I have downloaded it to my Nokia N95 8GB to give it a try out.  My first impressions was that it is an easy to operate web browser that is slightly more intuitive to use than the standard Nokia web browser.  Opera Mini mobile web browser ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/05/14/opera-mini-41/ When you are working in a shop that is purely for high street presence, and not retail, it must be nice to be able to spend your entire day surfing the web and chatting to your (drooling) customers.  Fortunately for me my local 'apple guy' was able to do this last ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/05/13/iphone-2/ There is a handy feature when playing with Oracle databases in SQL+ called rollback.  When working with large databases this can be really an amazing feature, especially when you realise that you have just wiped out a huge amount of the wrong data and that it has cost millions of ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/05/13/rollback/ Was extremely pleased to receive some new Oakley Half Wire HDO's yesterday.  I ordered Half Wire 2.0 frames with carbon coloured frames and bronze polarised lenses.  These shades were purchased to replace the Oakley's that I lost last November in The Hague, I have no idea where they went and have been extremely annoyed ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/05/06/new-oakley-hdos/ Having spent a lot of time last week developing a new theme for this blog I can honestly say that I am pretty disappointed with the outcome.  So much time, so much learning, so little beauty!  I have been trying to make myself feel better about this by reading a ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/05/05/theme-stress/ Apologies for the lack of updates over the past couple of weeks.  I am currently updating the Wordpress theme for this site and thinking about another new blog.  As you can imagine this is taking up most of my time...even though I have a little time off work right now. Anyway, ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/04/30/lack-of-updates/ My wife is currently finishing her PhD thesis.  The past few days have been interesting as she is currently losing her mental stability due to the compilation of the reference list.  References are crucial to any thesis, if you don't know where the quotes come from you can't use them! ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/04/26/google-scholar/ Just a short blurb about an online video I saw today, originally posted by Dooce and Blurbomat.  Heather & Jon Armstrong, with Sarah Nielson on the show On the Record.  For anyone new to blogging this is an interesting 25 minutes of blogging introduction.   http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/04/21/intro-to-blogging/ Could anyone not see this coming?  Especially after the cut in price from T-mobilein Germany, where you can get your iPhone for 99 Euros.  Reported this week that 02 and the Carphone Warehouseare dropping the price of the iPhone by 100GBP.  A substantial drop by any measure.  Although, if you ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/04/17/apple-drops-iphone-price-in-uk/ I was invited to join the beta testing of social thing yesterday.  As you can imagine I was more than a little excited, having recently posted about this new social networking service.  The aim of social thing in simple terms is to collect all your social networking services in one ... http://www.beingprimitive.com/2008/04/16/socially-speaking/