Miscellaneous ramblings of a web developer called David Parkinson. I work full time as a web developer but have interests in other things.
In my daily job of web development i sometimes come to a grinding halt when a task i have to do requires a bit of tinkering. A week or two ago i had the task of moving a large mySQL Database from one server to another, and what a pain it was.
First of all the size of this database was roughly 80MB, secondly the server only allowed a max upload of around 2MB via phpMyAdmin so i thought how the hell am i... 
The Playstation 3, one of my most loved piece of technology i own, i spend most of my spare time on this thing collecting trophies. Trophies are earnt by reaching milestones in games, and are very easy, easy, medium and hard, in other words, bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
An example of earning a trophy would be by killing 50 enemies for a bronze, killing 50 enemies in a row without dieing for a silver,... 
Yesterday i wrote about the problem i had with my iPhone and how i was going to be without for around 7 to 14 days. Today i got a phone call from my local O2 store to say that my iPhone had arrived and i could go and pick it up. I finished work at 5pm and went straight away, off to get my was broken phone.
I arrived at the store and the lady behind the counter said they had replaced it with a brand new...
I made the jump and bought myself an iphone, in fact it was around this time last year when i was looking into getting a new phone and iPhone got the winning choice. It’s been a great phone unti iPhone Firmware 3.0 came out.
Around a month or two ago the WiFi capabilities of the iPhone started to deteriorate, it would hardly find any wireless networks, if it did manage to connect to one it would drop... 
Hello everyone. You’ll most likely be thinking “where the hell have you been!”. I haven’t been anywhere, i just haven’t paid much attention to this blog at all and i feel guilty for it. So today marks the return.
I’ve got a new theme, new aim, new beginning. I’m going to change the content of this blog over the next few weeks, by that, i mean i’ll be talking... 