J-Mann - ProfilesArchive

About Me

So this can get pretty complicated, but the truth is, I'm a pretty straight forward... I've done a lot in my life, ranging from San Francisco Ballet to Jujitsu/MMA fights to Desert Storm to Student Body President of the University of New Orleans. I was a developer at Microsoft for a while, started my own company, lived in Seattle, Atlanta, New Orleans, St. Petersburg (Fl, not Russia). Travelled to Thailand, Japan, Costa Rica, Mexico, Germany, France, Ireland, all over the U.S. But I'm not just a summary of my experiences... but that is how people usually label others, so there ya go... Let me know where I fit in your world... and thanks for visiting mine... :-)

My Interests

I love to dance, jujitsu, and music. I dabble in DJ'ing and music production... I love to code in C# and do design algorithms (yes, I'm a geek like that).

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is aware of themselves, considerate of others, and actually listens. :-)

Music:

Hip Hop and Pop.... a lil country I guess too.

Movies:

Primal Fear is my favorite, but there are so many others that I like, Office Space, Save the Last Dance, Memento, Boondock Saints, Murder by Numbers, etc... I like dance movies, chick flicks, murder/suspense, comedy, just depends on my mood.

Television:

House. Everything else is ok... I do like the new show Burn Notice on USA (Gabrielle Anwar is hot!)

Books:

Not a big reader, and usually reading a tech manual... design patterns, application concepts, hehehe, ya know the fun stuff.. :-)

Heroes:

Bob Snell, truly inspiring guy from my childhood. My brother is pretty inspiring at times, and his random knowledge is just nuts. Passionate risk-takers really inspire me... there is a difference between risk taking and stupidity... it's a fine line, but I can identify the difference. :-)

My Blog

Real quick update...

Updated my pic, since I got a lot of requests... No more "intense, scary, run for the hills" picture, just me saying HEY! :-)
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:45:00 PST

Mac Update Round 2 1/2

So I actually shut down my mac today... It operated off a battery for 2 days, not continuous of course, but I just left it unplugged in sleep mode the whole time, and would open it to check email, and...
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:06:00 PST

Mac Update Round 2

So I haven't done the full dev test just yet. But I did a typical weekend usage this weekend... I did email, blogs, photos, music, and pretty much what most people use. I tried iWork also, numbers, ...
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:51:00 PST

The Day of Reckoning...

As a developer for over two decades, professional developer for Microsoft for 7+ years, an amazing event occurred today. I now own a macbook. I am VERY skeptical of apple and macintosh computers fro...
Posted by J-Mann on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:27:00 PST

A year in review

Today I'm 36, and so a year in review... I had an amazing year... I started my own company, I travelled to Europe, South America, Central America, all over the U.S., trained with some UFC fighters, DJ...
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:02:00 PST

Another productive day...

There are a lot of developers in my field... and most of them know how to code. But that does not make a good developer, that makes a coder... Coding is one thing, it's like anyone can spe...
Posted by J-Mann on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:48:00 PST

The blog is back...

Apparently, my blog was missed... aww, thanks to everyone who wrote and subscribes to my blog... it makes me happy to know someone is reading this. Anyway, can't write much now... but more to co...
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:12:00 PST

Marketing and Fitness Review

Marketing has gotten carried away... Television shows uses our most primitive desires to create a need for things we don't NEED... Those desire are food and sex. What defines what is attra...
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:14:00 PST

Football

What a GREAT weekend for football... HOLY UPSETS TODAY! Colts go down in an amazing performance by San Diego, without LT and Rivers! WOW... maybe they are underestimated... hmmm... Green B...
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:48:00 PST

The competition continues...

Ok, so there have been some questions about facebook, myspace, blogger.com, xanga, etc... and then of course the custom personalized site...I suppose facebook is winning the battle right now, but rece...
Posted by J-Mann on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:42:00 PST