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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
I love technology. I love how the process of doing tedious tasks can be simplified. I can remember when creating an favicon was a true task. You had to download some type of app that would transform your image to a PNG then do some maniuplation to make it the… So today I updated my iPhone to 4.3.2 and Jailbroke it again. I always get asked why I jailbreak. The simple answer is because I like to hack devices. The more to the point reasons are the cool customizations. The business reason is simple, MyWi it allows me to make… I went to a coffee shop today to do some work. Update a few documents and get some random things I have been putting off. As always I log onto the coffee shop wireless and connect to my VPN. (read other articles here and here). After completing the items… I have a few servers that I help maintain or use for VPN access. I have found on a few machines that when I use VPN to secure my connection at a coffee shop or any other public WiFi that some sites will not load. I have seen this issue… I love to browse engadget and gizmodo to see the new things in tech. Technolust is just something that is in me. The most interesting lists I have seen in a while are the CES 2011 items to watch and the travel gadgets. I’ve had this link bookmarked for… To follow up on my first post regarding Vibram 5 fingers, I’ve got a lot of feedback. People asking how long it took to get used to the shoes. How do they feel on my feet, do they hurt toes. Someone even asked about the press that barefoot running… I’m a network abuser. I use my internet connection for everything. VPN access when at any public wifi location (VPN ddwrt). I also use it for Streaming movies on netflix, backup for my data (mozy, dropbox, rsync for business data) and just general browsing. So overall I am using a… — UPDATE: Part 2 A few years back, while in Holland during the summer I ran into an old friend on the beach. He was with his kids and they had long boards and were walking down the beach. My friend was wearing the strangest shoes. I had never seen… What browser do you use. I’m a chrome user. Have been for about a year. The features that draw me to chrome are the very simple view with tabs, easy search by the address bar, and sync of the bookmarks. Also, did I mention speed. These great features that set…I love technology – favicon
Jailbreak iOS 4.3.2 – iPhone 4
Public Wifi – Coffee Shop Security
Permanent MTU settings for PPP0 ubuntu
Top Gadgets, technology, and cool things to purchase.
Vibram 5 fingers and barefoot running – Part 2
Netflix Streaming and bandwidth
Vibram 5 fingers and barefoot running
Browsers and more browsers (IE9, Firefox 4, and chrome)