I'm very fond of my 6 year old SE P800.  It has a touch screen with virtual QWERTY keyboard and I am using Opera Mini 3 Basic for web browsing. 

What I would like to upgrade to is a similar sort of phone, that I can install Opera Mini 4.2 (MIDP2) on to get JavaScript support.

An iPhone isn't going to cut it, as basically I want to be able to browse the full versions of sites like Facebook while on the move, and not get automatically rerouted to a cut down mobile version with no apps.

My phone of choice would be the SE X1 (which has Opera 9.5 installed as standard), but I strongly suspect I would get the same problem as with the iPhone.  Needless to say no-one in the Vodafone shop has the faintest idea what I am on about.

Any ideas?

Tags: phones
Current Mood: confused

Our much loved old marmalade cat Boda died yesterday. ( Slightly unpleasant details )We are all very sad.

Current Mood: sad

mrnazz who does bedtimes says that the questions last thing at night are just as awkward as the morning ones.  Recent examples are "How many people are going to sleep in America?" after reading a Dr Seuss story about people going to sleep, which resulted in a discussion of world time zones, and "How much electricity does the sun use?" (I obviously didn't answer the earlier question about the sun well enough).

Why are the most awkward questions (and by most awkward I mean most requiring a long explanation or discussion for the answer to be a useful one) always asked first thing in the morning, before I have had my coffee?  In the last couple of days we've had "What happens to people when they die?"  and "What happens inside the sun?". 

How far is it to the Oort Cloud, Mummy?

Or rather, my 4 year old son asked me "If a Dalek stinked, what would happen to it?"

Then I realised he meant extinct. I know where he got that word from - the project of the month at nursery is dinosaurs. But where did he get the idea that Daleks might be facing extinction? He's not allowed to watch Doctor Who.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: perplexed

Well, why? It's a auction house dealing in historic and high end cars. The Dalek is black and silver.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: pensive

On the counter in the changing room, what looked like a microwave. On closer inspection it proved to be a shoe sanitising machine, for pongy trainers. Whatever next!

Current Mood: cheerful

For the last 2 years of going to Body Pump classes I have had the goal (impossible seeming at first) of being able to perform the squats section with 10kg of weights on each end of the bar. Today I made that final step up from 9.5kg to 10kg. It was fine. The worst bit, as always, was lifting the bar back over my head at the end.

Now I just have to keep it up....

Current Mood: triumphant

Am sadly out of touch with the world of board gaming. What's come out in the last year or so that's good? Needs to be playable in a couple of hours by tired parents after a glass or two of wine!

Tags: board games