Archive for January, 2009
Being Number One is Underrated
by Jon on Jan.03, 2009, under Misc Items
Today I had to explain Seth’s concept of :
“being number one is underrated”
Lets take a look at the top sports earners
- Tiger Woods - 127 Million
- Phil Mickelson - 62 Million
- LeBron James - 42 Million
I think that in areas where performance is measured on an individual level this holds true. Sure there are several other top atheletes in team sports and maybe that team concept dillutes earnings but you can’t say there isn’t an athlete who isn’t measured indivually and then compared on some level.
That being said, the rewards and benefits of being number one in an environment where measures are taken on an individual level far outweigh the benefits of being in second place. If we look at the numbers above its almost double!
I survived Z2K9
by Jon on Jan.02, 2009, under Misc Items
So it was early on Dec 31st a coworker said:
“Hey, let me see your Zune … oh wow … we get to see it live”
My Zune was broke and I didn’t know it .
My secondary audio player is an older 30GB Zune player. Apparently there is a bug in the firmware that runs particular date functions. On December 31st 2008 which is a leap year, all zune devices were thrown into a continuous loop. Taken from another site the source of the bug may look like the following. Apparently the code does not handle the case of when the number of days in the year equals 366.
while (days > 365)
{
if (IsLeapYear(year))
{
if (days > 366)
{
days -= 366;
year += 1;
}
}
else
{
days -= 365;
year += 1;
}
}
Next day the Zune booted just fine and all was well. Now I don’t feel do bad when debugging problems with some of my code that uses loops. :)
iPhone Hello World
by Jon on Jan.02, 2009, under Dev Data Tech
In all of its glory I bring to you … Hello World on the iPhone simulator
Core Location - Search for a Mac Begins
by Jon on Jan.02, 2009, under Dev Data Tech
The lure of Apple development has captured my interest so its time to begin looking for an inexpensive Mac for development. Hopefully I’ll be able to find a Mac Mini on Craigslist for a few bucks.
If you know of something let me know.
Basically the app will be for the iPhone and targeted towards location based social networking.
Welcome 2009
by Jon on Jan.01, 2009, under Misc Items
So I’ve already achieved one item I my New Years todo list:
- Get the blog set back up
- Upgrade to a Flickr pro account
Now I have to just work on the other items:
- Get ‘beach ready’ for Miami (really really really in shape)
- Upgrade my running and workout gear
- Get back into participating with local professional groups
- Schedule a track day for the bike
- Transition from a camera owner to a photographer
- Begin my graduate degree
- … and write more often
