As I recently said, you have to be a bit MacGuyver to be a successful consultant. I’ve also whined about how difficult hiring is, especially when you want to hire MacGuyver. But then there are times where you work with someone who makes MacGuyver look positively clueless.

Jon for example takes the gum wrapper (to really beat an analogy to a sickening death) and shows us how to upload a lot of custom data to MapPoint given its constraints. Now this is a sweet example of problem solving.

Just for the record, I let Jon have the interesting work while I futzed around with these stupid textbox labels.