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Blog posts and ramblings to chronicle my adventures in life. This may contain technology, family, business or products that I enjoy.
About
Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.
Contact
Feel free to reach out to me with questions, contact, business ideas, projects or just a random Hello. Located in the Mitten state.
Recent Posts
iOS 5 upgrade – 8 hours
I decided to upgrade iTunes and also my iOS version to 5. The install of iTunes version 10.5 took about 20 min to download and install. The install of iOS 5 is taking a bit of time to install – 8 hours. Eight hours, that is one heck of…
Listening to music while biking
I’ve been commuting to work on my bike for a bit now. I have about 7 miles to travel each direction on some busy roads. During the commute I listen to music via my Motorola s10 headphones. These allow me to keep my phone in my backpack…
Bike Commuting Tools
I had a few setbacks on commuting this week. Over the weekend I let someone borrow my bike for a race here in GR. During the race the chain broke. Thankfully we were able to get them another bike in about 15 min. I felt bad that the chain…
Bike Commuting to Work
I have started biking into work again. It has been enjoyable and an interesting adventure. This time around I’m using my commuter, a converted mountain bike (Schwinn S9five6 – Purchased in 1995). This is one of my favorite bikes, I’ve had a great amount of fun over the…
Items I would like to purchase
I currently have many things that I would love to acquire. Some of these I consider great design and others I find as great tools. Seating: Eames Aluminum office chair – a great office chair that is comfortable and also good looking: http://store.hermanmiller.com/Products/Eames-Aluminum-Group-Management-Chair Eames Lounge – I have wanted this…
Stand up desk
For the last 2 months I have been standing up at work. I’ve borrowed a rolling laptop cart to be my stand up desk. You can see from the pictures that it is adjustable and also has a mouse tray to the side. The stand I am using is an instand, deluxe with…
Android SDK Windows 7 (x64) – “invalid command-line parameter” Error
While starting to write an android application I had to re-install the Android SDK on my new system. When I did this and tried to execute the Emulator I go the following error: “invalid command-line parameter: Files. Hint: use ‘@foo’ to launch a virtual device named ‘foo’. please use -help…
Re-Install windows phone 7 sdk
I just had to re-install windows phone 7 sdk. I wanted the features for Mango 7.5. However to get the install I had to uninstall the previous version (beta) I had. Now 3 reboots later I’m ready to role.