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Happy Birthday, Greg!

Definitely do at least part of the Hans trip and get to the top of Haleakala, sunrise up there is breathtaking.

ORLY???

Happy Birthday CJ.

Congrats Bryan! Have fun, Al.

Happy birthday justin!

So looking forward to this.

Played a round of golf this morning with Ian in preparation for him getting married this afternoon. So now I'm about to go shower and change into a tux. Tomorrow I'll follow it up with yet another wedding although thankfully one that I'm not in.

Yes, Honeycomb. And yes a different tablet, I've had a Asus Transformer for a few weeks now. It's an exceptional piece of hardware currently handicapped by Google's OS. They'd best get off their ass with that as hardware manufacturers are now providing many compelling iPad alternatives with the potential to be much more powerful devices. Problem is that the device is the limiting factor, the OS is and as a result even I considered simply getting an iPad 2 as a holdover until Google's tablet OS matures. I'll probably go the root/Rom/overclock route with the Transformer in the near future as that has been said to clear up some of the limitations of the OS with brute force but again, that feels like it shouldn't be necessary.

I wish they'd get Netflix for HC done already.

Happy Birthday, David.

Well done, Al.

Welcome back, Stretch!

How did I miss this? Happy birthday!!

Great news Al!

Today's the day for cycling - wedged in a 10mile jaunt while Lily and Andrew napped after another 3yr old's bday party.

As did I, happy belated!

Better luck to both of you. Me - about to start Lily's 3rd birthday party.

Just had a rather large margarita and am now feeling pleasantly numb. Now if I could just get more than 4hrs of sleep tonight I'd be in heaven.

teefury.com - seemed appropriate for this thread today.

I'd go but the only travel that I'll be doing for the next year or so will be for work.

Based on what I'm looking at right now the eee pad transformer might be worth a look, the screen is awesome. )

Happy Birthday!

I had both kids home alone this afternoon while my wife went to the movies. Everything went and continues to go pretty well. Just having dinner with Lily right now while Andrew is asleep in his pack and play.

I would think that a 7" tablet would be the way to go and there's slim pickings in that range right now. I also wonder if there's a tablet out there that has a screen that would function very well in direct sunlight applications. It also strikes me as pretty extreme to think about using a tablet as a GPS device unless it's more of a mapping device for route planning rather than route following. One more random thought - in order for any GPS to be useful it has to either carry all of its maps on board or have a data connection. Google maps only offers the option of download on demand (no real local map storage) and therefore requires a data connection to generate a route. You can, if you think of it ahead of time, plan a route and allow it to download the necessary maps before breaking the data connection (in the case of a wifi-only tablet) but otherwise your friend would need to be looking at a tablet with a built in 3G or otherwise modem which is going to make it a pretty expensive GPS. And Ken, the software requirement is simply listed there to show that if you want to attach the tablet to a computer (as a USB drive, for example) that it is compatible with all of the major OS's.