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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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Devices and information

I recently tried Weave from Mozilla. It allows you to store items in the Cloud. Go here (weave) to see more Blending the desktop and the web. Bookmarks and links etc… on all devices.

Watching the Olympics

How will you watch the Olympics? Here is a great article on stealing the Olympics. Article – Pirate Olympics It sounds like NBC is going to delay broadcasts 3 hrs. So If the Soccer game is on at 2:00 I won’t be able to see it till 5 or at…

9 smart money tips

I am always interested in ways to save money. I enjoy reading books about the subject and also following some guidelines. I saw this post and figured it was some basic stuff that everyone should follow. http://blog.mint.com/finance-core/9-smart-money-tips-to-help-you-quit-your-job/

Stealing Music

I do like Kid Rock. He recently made a PSA (Public Service Announcement) regarding stealing music. Rolling Stone – PSA I read a post somewhere that people took this as a real item and that he was encouraging stealing. I think his concept was great. If you steal music, why…

Gmail vs Exchange

I have always been interested in using different email systems. Once google apps came out I realized the value in a system where email / calendar / and contacts can be accessed by the small companies. Here is a great comparison. Google Apps vs Exchange :

Burn an ISO

I typically work with ISO files rather than keeping CD’s or DVD’s. If I need to mount the files I use Deamon tools, but if I need to quickly burn these to DVD or CD’s I use The ISO recorder powertoy. http://blog.neilmonday.com/2007/04/how-to-burn-isos-directly-in-windows.html

SharePoint and SSL

There are some times where I just wonder why SharePoint is so popular. I had an instance where a client would like to have the login page secured. This would require the login page (forms based authentication) to have an ssl certificate. Since I had setup sharepoint to use SSL…

Open Source (applications)

I love it when a great new application comes along and is open source. The guys from DimDim, have created a Webex and Livemeeting like application that is open source. www.dimdim.com I was using, www.vyew.com but will give this a try. In my initial trials it has worked well. You…

Cleaning up your linux box

My backup server and utility server is a ubuntu box in my basement. Nothing special, an old laptop with a USB drive attached for backups. Every night my machines rsync with it and keep files nice and safe. Recently I noticed the main partition was getting a bit full. I…