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
Web site Feature (facebook chat)
I am always amazed how sites can launch and draw traffic. Then add a feature that just takes off. The facebook chat feature that lets you have an IM / Chat session with another facebook friend has over 1 billion messages a day. 1 billion is a huge number. In…
New Iphone
So are you one of the people who want a new Iphone. I am. The main reason (SPEED) I like my phone, use it a lot. But the speed could be better. Am I willing to pay 500 bucks for speed. Well, not right now. Here is an interesting article…
Digital life (or not?)
I have been neglecting my blog for a while. I moved jobs and have been busy outside of work with the kids. To catch up I will have to figure out some type of series to blog about. For now, consider this a “I’m back” post. From plane crashes, The…
On Vacation
I’m finally catching up the the online world after being on vacation (well I’m still on vacation) but online for a moment. What an interesting world we live in. I took myself off-line for a while and found out that I really just miss information. Once back online I was…
Internet Access: The Cost
It is interesting that we take internet access for granted. I’m currently on vacation in Florida and wanted some online time. To gain access in the location where we are (man made island in Stuart Florida). The cost for a day is 8.00 and the cost for the week is…
Two new interesting sites
www.hab.la and www.gazelle.com Hab.la lets you hold a im chat from your web site. Something similar to LiveHelp or Livechat but it uses your IM client (AIM, gTalk, etc..) Gazelle.com let’s you sell your old electronic items (or just recycle them). I was able to price out my old Samsung…
Netbook review (3 weeks)
Well I have had my MSI wind for 3 weeks now. So far it has been very useful and worth the purchase. I have already had 2 Operating systems on it. I started with XP which it came with and I’m currently running Windows 7. 7 has the advantage of…
The future of local news.
I was reading Mark Cuban’s blog post (One reporter ) and it occurred to me that we will have a major issue if local news papers and media go out of business. The majority of people who do not put effort into finding news will not get information. Mark’s thoughts…