Blog
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
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… 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… 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… 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… 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. I often find myself following a link from a twitter post or some other blog. Not having the time to read it immediatly I either add it to Readitlater or I email myself. I normally don’t add any comments just the link. What often happens is a few weeks… I’m a huge fan of a tool called nmap (nmap.org). It is a network tool that can do many things. The most simple is to determine if a host is active. Anytime I connect to any network I run a quick scan to see who my neighbors are on the… I am on the verge of purchasing an ebook reader. I currently read most of my books on my iPad or iPhone. However I have found that in some cases this is not the most reliable readers. I find my iPhone great because it is always with me. However it…Bike Commuting to Work
Items I would like to purchase
Stand up desk
Android SDK Windows 7 (x64) – “invalid command-line parameter” Error
Re-Install windows phone 7 sdk
Random Post of Links
Find all computers on a network – Using Nmap – free tool
Ebooks vs hard cover