http://www.mudpoet.org Welcome to my blog Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:33:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm going to go out on a pretty safe limb and predict that we'll have walking, talking robots in the lifetime of the next generation (if not in my own lifetime). Link to article http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/11/13/irobot-scifi-movie-or-reality/ FC Dallas compiled a video of all 59 goals in 2008. Pretty cool. FCD Goals 2008 from FC Dallas on Vimeo. http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/11/10/fc-dallas-2008-goals/ Even though I didn't go to ACL this year, I still managed to come out of Austin with a new music discovery.  Muchos gracias to Mark for tuning me in to Pandora.  Pandora is a product of the music genome project, which aims to "capture the essence of music at the ... http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/09/28/pandora/ This time next high tide' I be boardin' a plane t' th' good old USA. `Tis been a great six moons o'er here in th' UK, but I be lookin' fore t' goin' homeport. I've made a top-ten list o' things t' do when I get homeport. Half o' th' ... http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/09/19/24-hours/ Next time, don't be afraid to show your gratitude. http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/09/16/the-graditude-campaign/ Paul from work just told me about an awesome plugin for iTunes called iConcertCal. Basically you provide your city and state and then the plugin will scan your iTunes library and cross-reference all of the artists against a concert database. Then it populates a calendar with upcoming concert ... http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/09/11/iconcertcal/ After toying around with Google Sketchup for a while, I've decided it is awesome. It took me a little while to figure it out, but I think I've got the hang of all the basic stuff. They've got a ton of tutorial videos online, so that helps for ... http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/07/31/google-sketchup/ This past weekend's road trip was to Paris for a few days. I left Friday after work and took a train to London, then the Eurostar rail to Paris. Not a whole lot to blog about, so I'll let the pictures do the talking... http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/07/17/paris/ I finally got to go home mid-June to see friends and take care of errands/appointments. I really didn't have a chance to sit back and fully relax, especially since I worked most of the time, but I did have a little fun. I started it off with a great trip ... http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/07/01/los-angeles-and-dallas/ I went to London back in late May (can you say delayed blog?) for the USA vs England game and a bit of touring around. The game was pretty bad 'cause the US players didn't seem to be trying, nor did they apear to care. But any time ... http://www.mudpoet.org/2008/06/01/london/