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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


Iphone – copy and paste

I just saw today that there is an app that you can get to allow for Copy and Paste. It appears that it does not work in Safari. I can live with that. The ability to copy and paste is huge. One example is for a wireless network key that…

Tax time

It is tax time again. I love doing taxes and I don’t know why. My favorite store is closing so I picked up my copy of taxcut on sale and got 10% going out of business discount. I still like taxcut instead of turbo tax

New worm (Windows)

I found this interesting. A new worm is spreading on a non fixed Microsoft security issue. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125941

Would you use a NetBook

I have been thinking of getting a NetBook for a while. I have many reasons to get one, most of all is the portable size of the unit. It will also make it easier for me to not break out “my work” as my wife calls the laptop at the…

Why JailBreak

Since I have an Iphone and I have loaded JailBreak. Here is a good little article on why to do it. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_you_have_to_jailbreak_the_iphone.php My reason was simple. I wanted the Modem application (to use my iphone as a modem)

WordPress upgrade

I finally got around to upgrading my blog last night. Please ignore any left over things that have to be fixed. WordPress 2.7 is now in place.

Windows 7

Yesterday I did as many people did and attempted to download Windows 7. I have a copy but want / need a 64 bit copy. When I went to get the file (legally from Microsoft) I got message from the site saying “Server too busy”. Basically IIS is saying it…