I just finished reading the book Smart & Gets Things Done by Joel Spolsky. It is a very interesting read and a lot of the material is from his websites at Joel on Software and Fog Creek Software. If your looking to hire a programmer like me you should read the book. I'd love to find a company like Fog Creek that treats their programmers well and provides a nice quiet place to work. I totally agree with Joel where he talks about getting in the zone and the hours just fly. When I'm working in my home office the time just flies by and I forget to eat sometimes. Thankfully I have someone to watch out for me and send in food at regular intervals.

I just finished reading The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. This is the second book I've read by this author, the first being Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. I find his style easy to read and I agree with pretty much all the points in the book. I find some of the ideas interesting on how word of mouth epidemics spread.

I've seen a few other posts about the Joel Test score and I though I would figure out my score.

1. Do you use source control?

Yes. Subversion is my current source control software. For the Mac client I've been using svnX.

2. Can you make a build in one step?

I was riding my bicycle over some rocks when I fell and had my watch ripped off my arm. That hurt and left a little scar where each link in the band gouged my skin. This image is my watch band where the linkage pin was sheered off on the lower section. A linkage pin is between the two broken pieces for reference. The original broken pin is still stuck in the band which you can see is bent out of shape. The sheered off portion is missing from the bottom of the pin. I wonder how much force it took to sheer that off, I know my arm didn't like it.

Enigmo by Pangea Software is a very fun puzzle game for the iPhone. If you like puzzles and puzzle games, this is definitely worth the $10 to play.

I just finished reading A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. I'm sort of glad that I didn't see the movie now that I read the book. I didn't really enjoy the book and thought it was a bit weird. Not really my style.

I've graduated to the next error message after the phone was updated finally to the 2.0 version. The new one is: "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred (-4). There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later."

I was trying to upgrade my first generation iPhone to the new 2.0 software version so I could try out some of the new applications and ran into a snag. It seems that the Apple iTunes Store is down or at least overloaded such that I can't activate my phone now. The error message I'm getting is: "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred (-9838). There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later."

I just finished reading Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. I've been reading the Sword of Truth series all out of order. I started on book 9 of the series Chainfire because I saw it at the book store in an MP3 format. I really prefer the audio books in MP3 format already and that one was on 2 discs. This book was also in MP3 format already but in comparison to the number of discs, I listened Phantom (book 10) and it was on 20 discs.

One benefit of the WWDC experience is the beer bash and the concert. Tonight it was a nice hour long set by the Bare Naked Ladies.