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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.

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Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.

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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


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…

Silverlight – Can it be the next flash

I am a fan of silverlight and I’m a bit worried about how it will pan out for Microsoft. Here is an article from /. about how Major League Baseball is pulling the plug from using silverlight. (Major League Base Ball drops Silverlight) I did not know that MLBAM also…

Google Voice and Iphone

Just when I thought things could not get better with the Iphone after skype released the iphone app. I find out that Google Voice (Google Voice) is coming to the Iphone. I have been using Grand Central for a long time for my business number. Now that Google Voice has…

Internet gateway – Linksys

The one thing that can really upset me is when my internet connection goes down. It’s not that I can’t live with out it, or have to have it. It is the process of fixing, rebooting, talking family members through how to reset things, or calling my provider. Recently our…

Apple did it right

I purchased my iphone in December, so far it has been great. I even have my wife interested in getting one. Recently my phone had the ringer on / off button come off. It is a chrome looking switch on the side and the chrome part appeared to break off….