Total Conversion

Just had a day of sympathies & best wishes from family, friends and all of you. Drawing strength from all of this. Had a ton of family over for supper. The chances are slim, but somewhere some irish blood must have been infiltrated into this southern tip of Africa because we always have a good time when we mourn. Very little tears, lots of stories and laughter. Celebrate Life! (There, I did it. I quoted Rick Springfield. Boss fans can kill me later)

Just got back from the hospital. My dad passed away this morning. At 81 years old, he lived in Apartheid ruled South Africa for most of his life. In 1994 he proudly voted for the first time for a free South Africa and was able to live through the rebirth of our rainbow nation. Last year he saw England play Algeria in Cape Town during the Soccer World Cup in Cape Town, fulfilling a lifelong dream ( it was a crap match, though...). At any rate, he had heart bypass surgery in 1991 and cheated death for the next 20 years, for which I will always be grateful. RIP Dad, at least you got to see Arsenal having some glory with Tony Adams, Dennis Bergkamp & Thierry Henry. We will miss you.

Why do i like "Want you gone" and "still alive" by Jonathan Coulton so much? Does the satisfaction gained when i beat Portal 1 & 2 make the songs better? Can't stop singing and hhumming them.

Steam is going to bankrupt me. Sturmovik for $5. Sigh.

Just picked up fieldrunners hd on tablet. Its 1230am. Will i play a bit or go sleep?

Second post following immediately after. Just picked up Splashtop HD & X-Plane for my Asus Transformer Honeycomb Tab. All this proprietary software is going to give me a terribly bad conscience.

Wanted to make my first post a memorable one. Failed. No wait. Here's an honest to God original quote. "It's easy to get lost in thought if you don't go there often." - Me. Really. made it up 30 years ago, but didn't patent it. Who knew you could try and protect your quotes as IP? Anyway. I KNOW I said it first!

What can I say?  Father's day tradition of annoying the wife and spending continued for one more year. I picked up an ASUS eeePad Transformer 32GB Wireless model and I'm loving it.  It shipped with Android 3.0 Honeycomb as standard, but after switching it on and connecting to WIFI, it detected an update which it proceeded to download in the background without any prompting. While this was happening I decided to research how to Root the thing and naturally turned to XDA Developers. I found that the rooting required a (micro) sd card to perform which went relatively smoothly.  I then installed the Prime Custom ROM also from XDA Developers. The Prime ROM has all the ASUS OEM Apps installed and appears to be largely identical, but of course has additional capabilities due to it being rooted.  My main reason for rooting any android device is to run the CIFS filesystem in the kernel, which allows me to mount Windows (or Linux / OSX) shares on the sdcard.  What that means is tha