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This weekend was great! I got to spend all of it with Aileen which was really good. We did a bunch of yard work and then also did a lot of relaxing. Yesterday her and I hit up the insanity at Cherry Creek State Park. It was nice to be near water (yes there is water in Colorado, not much though) We had a picnic lunch along the water went for a walk around teh reservoir and then headed home. Last week was insane with the trip to NYC so these past few days have been much needed and hopefully a just a teaser of what is to come with the cruise next week.

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Finally had the chance to post The Video from the Spring Symposium. It’s a pretty high quality wmv so load and buffering may take a little time. I’ve also heard there are some audio issues on the Mac end but I hope to get this up on YouTube soon. Otherwise enjoy!
[Going to 11 - This is Mick Beckam]

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Wrapped another Spring Symposium yesterday. We had a great crowd, intuitive sessions, an Awesome video (Should be posted soon) and a very keen keynote. I pretty much passed out when I got home but found myself back in the office bright and early today setting up for a couple web and video conferences. Will there be time to relax this weekend…?

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I attended the Morrissey show last night at the Filmore. I have never been much into his solo stuff unlike Aileen but I love the Smiths and had heard rumors that he was now doing Smiths songs in concert. Besides, I have never seen him nor the Smiths live so I figured, what the hay. I will not get into details because I’m sure there are plenty of die hard Morrissey websites that can give you a second by second narration of the show. But I will say this. He sounded great, the band sounded great. His new stuff was surprisingly good and he did 4 Smiths songs! Last night was a blast!

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I’ve stumbled across yet another service in the everlasting quest for the perfect streaming music site.  This one is called Finetune [finetune.com] Essentually finetune seems to take the best from Yahoo Launchcast and the best from Pandora they mix them up, add a little web 2.0 socialness to it and spit out their product. I can listen to preselected stations, I can create an instant station based on an artist or a tag users have applied to various songs or I can create a playlist. That’s right, Finetune allows users to go through Finetune’s extensive library of music and create custom playlists. Once you’ve made this playlist it can then be set as public for the rest of the Finetune community to enjoy, comment, tag etc. There are some RIAA type restrictions that Finetune must adhere too but personally I dont find them too intrusive.  For example, when creating a playlist you must have at least 45 songs and only 3 per artist before it can be used. But there is a great “I’m lazy” feature that will round out your playlist if you get overwhelmed trying to find 45 tracks. The feature that I am most excited about with Finetune is their cute little interface designed to optimize the finetune experience on your Nintendo Wii. It’s great and even looks like a nintendo branded application. So after spending hours creating the perfect playlist, making friends, tagging songs adding favorites, fire up your Wii (if you’ve found one) and bring the music to your living room.

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I have jumped on the Ustream bandwagon as everyone else has and have set up a Live streaming cam to keep an eye on my dog Jacques. Unfortunately we need to keep him in a crate while we are at work otherwise we would have no shoes. It’s been interesting in the past few days to watch him. He seems to really freak out (theres a name for it but it escapes me) for the first hour but then for the most part chills out for the rest of the day. You can watch him [here]
http://www.yuhnke.com/jacques/

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