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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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What are your thoughts on Vista

I have heard people say they love vista, I have heard others curse it and go back to XP. In one case I know of a Microsoft Developer who will not run vista. I love new technology but respect speed and performance and I do not see either of those…

New Company – NuSoft Acquired

As of Wednesday the company I work for NuSoft Solutions (www.nusoftsolutions.com) has been acquired by RCM Technologies (www.rcmt.com) a publicly traded company. The role I have been in as Principal consultant for our Kinetic IG initiative will still continue. Being part of the RCM family will increase our ability to…

Vista 64bit

So far my dell d830 running Vista 64 is doing really good. I have found that it eats the battery faster than before and that there are a few more issues with some programs. I have found that my favorite image capture program (cropper) does not work. the performance increase…

New Laptop (kinda)

I finally got a new laptop from work to replace my dead D820. I now have a refurbished d830. So far I am very happy. It has the same case, look, and screen as the last one. However, this box has 64bit Vista running on it. I am excited to…

Web tools

One of my favorite tools on the web (www.dnsstuff.com) recently made a site change. They took their free tools and lookups and moved them to a different area. They also added a subscription model and want to make some money. I am not against the change, in fact I am…

Looking for Wallpaper for your Desktop

If you are like me and your computer died and you are now using another for every day use and don’t have your collection of images for wallpaper (I hope you are not like me) You may find this site useful http://marcogomes.com/wallpapr It is a very nice wallpaper search. I…

I need to go solid-state

After my not so trusty dell d20 laptop decided I needed another hard drive inside of it, I realized that I should go with solid-state hard drives. It could by my frustration with the machine I have (dell mentioned earlier) but why do hard drives have to be the main…

Simple Ideas and great products

I’m not sure how I stumbled to this link, probably reading my rss feeds. But, what a simple and great idea. SpaceStation A product to organize your cords and also clean up your desk space for a laptop. I have probably seen a few people do this on their own…

Run Linux applications on windows

I just ran across a post on lifehacker regarding running linux on your windows machines Run linux on windows app I think it is a good idea and a nice distro. I have found that I use my linux machine for years in just a terminal window. However, no matter…