Today, I added the two timers to the right sidebar.  The first counts down to when I move.  The second counts up from my date of birth.  The timers are plugins for Wordpress (the blogging platform I use for this blog) that were developed by someone else.  After adding the second one and seeing the total days since I was born, I felt the need to double check the total.  I don’t know why.  Turns out it was wrong.  The years, months, and day totals were right, but the overall day count was around 150 days too high by my calculations.  It was showing 11,870 days.  So I dug into the PHP code to see if I could figure out what was wrong.  I spent around a half an hour trying to figure out why the calculations weren’t working.  At first glance (and the second, third, fourth, etc), all the formulas seemed okay.  Eventually, I finally noticed what was wrong.  In his formula he was converting from seconds back to days (I won’t get into why).  To do so you would divide the total in seconds by 86400 to get days (60 secs/min x 60 min/hr x 24 hrs/day), but he had made a typo and was dividing by 84600.  Because the numbers are so close, I didn’t notice for the longest time.

What surprises me is that since Wordpress is a very popular blogging platform and there are undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of people using this countdown timer, nobody else ever noticed the error.  Apparently nobody else ever thought to double-check the math.

So here’s my question: does the fact that I double-checked the math on something that, in the grand scheme of things, is so completely and utterly unimportant make me very thorough or just incredibly anal?

I’ve made some changes again.  Both this site and wanderinglightphotography.com have been updated with new looks.  This site has been reverted back to my full time blog.   tonyrix.info will eventually just host my bio and contact information.  If you’ve subscribed to or normally visit tonyrix.info, you should have automatically been redirected here, but you should update any bookmarks or feeds to reflect the changes.  The redirection will only work for so long.

The changes basically give both sites a common look and feel to some extent.  The colors are different, but I’ve changed to a much simpler theme in both cases.  wanderinglightphotography.com now has a nice flash slideshow on the homepage that will be updated from time to time with new images.

I got rid of the photo blog because I was using it much.  Most of my recent photos just end up on Flickr.  Watch my photostream if you want to see my recent work or my daily self-portrait.  If you feel like buying something and contributing to my "red striped lenses" fund, head to wanderinglightphotography.com.  I’ll be forever grateful. :)

I hope to be blogging more often from this point forward as I start to make final preparations for my move to Missoula.  I’ll be using this blog as a means to let everyone know what’s going on.

Less than 60 days to moving day!!!

I’ve decide not to log my workouts on this site any more.  Instead, I’m using another site named FitLink to log my workouts.  I was using FitLink for a while last summer, but eventually just stopped using it.  I don’t remember why…probably just lazy.  Anyway, I’ll be tracking all my workouts there again.  It’s much easier and faster than trying to record them in normal blog post.  I can update it in matter of minutes each day when I get back from my lunch workout.  You can view my profile and workouts by clicking on the FitLink link in the sidebar.

FitLink is nice because it lets you define your workouts and save them for future use.  Then, when you want to record a workout for a particular day, you just select the saved workout and fill in any additional information is required (such as the weight you used, number of reps, distance ran, etc).  It also lets you define and save routes for you runners out there.  It uses an embedded Google Map to let you plot your route and calculate the actual distance.  Like the workouts, you just select the route you ran and enter your time or any other details you wish to record.

Membership for FitLink is free, too. :)