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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.

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Oomph – Events

Another feature of the Oomph toolkit is the ability to use events and have them be available as ics files (or calendar entries) I am adding an event I plan on attending “Tech Trends with Keith Brophy” in the grand rapids area.  If you look in the Microformat (upper left…

My Contact Information – oomph – hcard

I have been testing out the oomph toolkit.  You can read more about this at the Mix09 web site http://visitmix.com/Lab/Oomph.  It is a micro format viewer for web applications.   I have inserted my hcard (contact information) into this page.  Note the little icon in the upper left. Jim Becher Tilde32…

Keywords and spending (useful site)

I stumbled upon this site that is pretty interesting. It shows some detail that I was looking for on how sites market keywords and some possible spending trends. It is somewhat accurate. I was able to benchmark the site against a few of the clients that I have done work…

Stimulus plan – Mark Cuban Style

I’m not sure if this plan will work. But I’m excited that someone is pushing the envelope and trying things. I agree , it is the small business and entrepreneurs that will help us further our economy and financial situation. People who are motivated can do a lot of things,…

Copying a business model or just design

Here is an interesting discussion / article on copying someones business model or even their design. Is it right to take a working site or design and re-use it or make your business around it. Reading through this the idea behind it is that the company that is riding the…

contacts, contacts, contacts

Google announced sync. I like this move, the ability to sync info into the cloud. Those of us who have used Exchange for a while have had the great feature to have instant sync from a server to your device. http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sync.html (sync) Now people with out an exchange server can…

New Project (DIY)

I’m starting a new project to store my DVD’s Wii games and stuff in my basement and wanted to try something new. After a little looking I found an article on lifehacker.com that had a pretty good idea for me. So I’m looking for some large old school Hi-Fi speakers…

Tools of the trade

Since I finally got a new phone (iPhone) my old blue tooth head-set a jabra BT250 (Info) did not seem to have that great of quality with the phone. I’m not sure if it was because it is 5 years old or that technology has changed. The BT250, as ugly…