The Last Year

As I get older, something that has been getting more and more important to me is the amount I am learning in the time it takes me. As many people say in various books about time management and all sorts of other things is that time is one of the only objects in life you can never get back. Its been almost a year since I started keeping a journal of what I do every day, mostly related to the time I spend at work, when I get up, and progress on personal projects. I feel as if I have become the most improved in flash programming over the last year; which is pretty cool. The disappointment of the year is presentable progress in electrical engineering. There are a few EE projects that have been a waste of time too such as the wireless headphones and the EEEPC based GPS navigation (which works, but I never use it). All in all its been a tremendous year for learning mostly thanks to my job. Although it pains me to turn another year older without knowing exactly how to do all the things I want to; I am very thankful for what I have.

A lackluster and incomplete listing of what I can recall learning in the last year can be found below:

Smarty Templating System
How to Develop Gallery Modules
how (electrical) transformers work
methodologies for working with mosfets
methodologies for working with op-amps
methodologies for working with optocouplers
concepts of forward biasing, bitshifting, darlington pairs, ..etc..etc.
better circuit board making abilities
I spent some time looking at circuit simulation software such as Multisim and spice
a better understanding of c bitwise operators
How to move to a new state
How to live half a country away from family
how to ride a commuter train
how to drive more aggressively on the east coast
how to fly in a post 911 airline system and during holidays
massive increase in understanding of flash development
an understanding of how a museum multimedia control system works + most of the associated equipment
moderate knowledge of the methodology and processes used in harr image recognition training
Up to lecture 21 in linear algebra with professor Strang thanks to opencourseware and MIT
a better understanding of fundamental principals of algebra
a better understanding of what it means to source and sink current from a design perspective
how to make bread and stew
the size of WWII ships thanks to east coast first hand history
how to invest in stocks
a moderate understanding of socket programming
the story of how the laser was invented
the story of the first pocket pc
the story of IdSoftware and the events that led up to the making of Doom and post Doom ID
the story of Charles Kettering
increased general knowledge of science
increased general knowledge of economics
how to do opencv programming in Eclipse
mild understanding of how to use QT and gtk
finished the RS232 to USB board and PWM board
how to make my own breakout boards for surface mount IC's

I know there are a lot more, but I cant remember them all. I will be realeaseing an open source tool this weekend and you can hold me accountable to it. It should be a good resource for those learning actionscript for the purpose of media streaming.