Ice Cream Sandwich, Anyone?

This is where all the trouble I went through to get s-off on my phone paid off (you may read that tale here. Hmmm, I think it’s been awhile since I posted here…). Anyway, Sprint pulled the HTC EVO 3D from its online line-up a while back. And there’s a reason for that. It’s going to Virgin Mobile (don't believe me? You can pre-order it from Radio Shack here). But on Virgin Mobile, it’s going to have Ice Cream Sandwich. With Sense 3.6. And somebody leaked the ROM update. Which a bunch of idiots when and promptly flashed, and they’re idiots because it included a firmware upgrade specific for Virgin Mobile and it’s network (while it does use essentially the Sprint network, there are enough differences that you can be seriously fückered up and not have a way of getting out). So I waited. And the developers at XDA Developers did their magic, and Sprint specific ICS sandwich ROMs have now appeared. And I’m running one now. Right now, I’m running MikVirgin. And I’m sufficiently impressed with this phone that I’m using it as my daily driver. I’m sure that it’ll only get better when a Sprint specific version is leaked/released. Maybe the Energy treatment could be possible?

Hello World, Once Again!

Ok, so Sunday was Mother’s Day. My boss bought his wife a shiny new MacBook Pro (actually I work at 2 locations, and at 1 I work for the husband, and I work for the wife at the other location). Anyway the husband bought a brand new MacBook Pro for his wife, which meant their ca. 1 year old laptop was on the market. I was at Worst Buy when the husband bought the laptop, and I was impressed with it (it's spec’ed to be a desktop replacement). A few months later, my WinXP tower started having issues, and I bought my own laptop as a hedge against it dying. It never did (just some dust that I took care of). SO I put my laptop on the market, and I found a buyer, and my boss offered me terms that I could afford for his ‘old’ laptop. And now it’s mine. With the really big display and hard drive, it will become my new default computer. My windows XP tower, with it’s 1 Tb drive, will become my storage & and backup server. And there will probably be some games on it that won’t get installed on the laptop (there are just some games that Windows 7 won’t take…).