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
Online Website Tools (ads)
I typically use google webmaster tools to manage my sites. This includes things like search submission, keywords, and robots.txt. I recently got a partner email from Microsoft (the company I work for is a MS partner) and in that message was a link to Microsoft’s Tools Ad Labs. I did…
Home Office (media work space)
Check out this setup. Two roommates pooled resources and setup their home office and media room. (Photo tour) http://www.flickr.com/photos/l3db3tt3r/sets/72157615076482586/ I would love to have some money and time to build out a great media center and home office.
Great Videos
I’m not a huge YouTube fan. I hate getting emails with links to youtube. However, I got a recommendation to listen to this video and I had to share. It is a version of Bob Marley’s “One Love” song. Which is one of my favorite tunes. It was created by…
Home office
If you are looking for some ideas on how to do a home office right (or setup your desk) here is a great site for ideas (Deskography) http://www.deskography.org/
Failure – it’s not that bad
Great article on Lifehacker.com about failure. It shows that failure is not just a status you can place on things. In the case of the article, skills and knowledge was learned that will allow the author to succeed in the future http://lifehacker.com/5161844/failure-is-the-highway-to-success
Updated My iPhone : Jailbreak 2.2.1
I don’t sync my iPhone that much and when I hooked it up to itunes yesterday I was due for the new firmware 2.2.1. I realized that since my phone was already Jailbroken (is that a word) I would have to Jailbreak it again. Other than the 1.5 hour download…
Web site support or Help chat
Digsby has a great little widget to allow you to have live chat on your site. Please look below in the right side and I have added this widget to the blog. This allows you to use your existing IM system (I use Digsby) to be a communication tool to…
Windows Service : installer
I have not coded a windows service for a long time. The last time I touched a service I used the “installutil” from the framework to install it. I decided to make an IISreporter Service that would push your IIS stats out to a twitter site. In the process I…