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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.
About
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
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…
Give me online space
Skydrive is giving you 5gigs of data. Backup, share, and push your data online. http://skydrive.live.com/ I currently use Mozy and I-drive for backup. But skydrive allows you to share files.
End of analog Cell Phone service
Next week we will no longer be able to use a “bag phone” or at least an analog one. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021500036.html They are turning off most of the networks. I’m not sure too many people are going to notice. But some companies are very interested in this. Home security systems that…
Kineticig.com – site is live
In the normal world of business when you start your business people may use the term “hang out a shingle” , in other words open for business (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hang+out+shingle). Well the group I am part of a nusoft just launched our placeholder site and we are getting ready to “hang our…
ISP and bandwidth
I’m going to keep on this topic. I was watching crankygeeks (http://www.crankygeeks.com/) which I download on tivo. An the group was talking about ISP and traffic filtering. It was an interesting conversaton. For starters, I think John did not really care about the matter. But what I did get out…