http://blog.muddyhorse.com Where animals and technology collide Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:42:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/03/not-fixing-the-xbox-360/ The Company was pleased with our performance last year.  So they went against everything we’ve been teaching our kids, and gave us candy pills. That’s Jelly beans on the left, mints on the right.  Or so I hope. ]]> http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/02/a-small-token-of-our-appreciation/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/02/a-good-and-bad-thing-about-buzz/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/02/the-clumsy-pattern-software-development/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/02/well-theyre-now-on-the-list-anyway/ I just picked up three books on Design, based largely on the recommendations in the JavaPosse Roundup 09 sessions on the topic.  I haven’t read them yet, but just perusing them makes them look to be a lot of fun.  First, the Amazon links: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman Don’t Make Me Think!  A [...]]]> http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/02/design-work/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/02/fixing-the-xbox-360/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/01/podcast-rotation/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/01/coolish-mozilla-bespin/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/01/youre-just-fooling-yourself/ Buy.com recently had a great deal on some games and battery packs.  One of the games included was Crackdown.  Here’s a quick review, after playing about half the game.  I get the feeling that Crackdown is one of those games everyone’s heard of, but few have played.  It’s never had a mega promotional campaign, but [...]]]> http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/01/game-review-crackdown/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2010/01/googly-nexus-one-pricing-and-plan-breakdown/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/11/getting-all-of-ubuntu-to-talk-through-a-ntlm-proxy/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/06/biting-the-bullet/ Chickens are delicate creatures, sometimes dying for no good reason.  Unfortunately, they are also delectable creatures, and find themselves in harm’s way. Our chickens have been cooped up in their, er, coop for several days now.  We’d lost 1-2 chickens a day last week.  Several of the abductions seem to happen during the middle of day, [...]]]> http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/06/critter-chasing/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/06/right-up-my-alley/ Memorial day weekend, we broke the ban on Wal-mart.  Why, you might ask?  Because of Nibbler. We were in Blytheville, AR over memorial day for the Hudson family reunion.  Lots of food, visiting, long-lost relatives, and, this year, rain.  After the reunion and 2 hours of swimming in an indoor heated pool, we headed out to [...]]]> http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/06/return-to-the-land-of-unhappy-zombies/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/02/java-build-systems-part-2-maven/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/02/maven-osgi-spring-javafx-ant/ http://blog.muddyhorse.com/2009/02/java-build-systems-part-1-what-they-do/