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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.
Contact
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
Windows Home server
Don’t think I’m going to purchase this one. I’m not sure why someone would need another server in their home. I like the idea but I think they are missing some features. Why couldn’t I just use linux? Or my old XP system to do the same thing. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/windows-home-server/windows-home-server-review-317502.php
Bandwidth allocation
Here is another story related to bandwidth shaping from the major ISP’s. I like the authors arguments and stance, we really do not know what our ISP (comcast, att, verizon) are doing with our traffic. We sign up for DSL and Cable under the assumption that we will get our…
I don’t like itunes
For the record I use itunes, I just don’t like it. It does things that I just don’t like and don’t need. For example, I have to use itunes to put music on my ipod. I happen to have a lot of music and typically just rotate music on and…
Interesting Site
One of my co-worker sent me a link to this site http://www.thoof.com I really like what the site is doing. If you continue to scroll down the page continues to load stories via ajax page call. This is really slick, I think of all the blog sites I read…
A “Why didn’t I think of that” moment
I was reading lifehacker.com and came across this post http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/manage-multiple-remote-desktop-connections-with-mremote-310293.php All of a sudden I realized wow, what a simple great idea. I bet in some form I had even thought of something similar. It’s written in .NET and would be pretty easy to do. I’ve started using this and…
Wind Power
I have been obsessed with wind power for a long time. I wanted to try it on our new house, however it did not fit in the budget. Here is a great KISS idea that a 20 something inventor came up with. If this goes live, I would love to…
Thinkpad – T61
Well I am writing this on my new Thinkpad T61 widescreen. Since our home got struck by lightning and I lost our home computer I had the opportunity to purchase a new laptop. So I decided to go with the brand and type I love best. (Thinkpad) This new T61…
Live Writer – New Post
I am testing out using Live writer as my new method of posting to my blog.
Code Generation – Nusoft Framework
The company I work at NusoftSolutions has released it’s Nusoft Framework as open source to Code Plex. This is an extensible business and data layer framework. It uses codesmith templates to generate the code. Check it out and see the ease of use for starting a project http://www.codeplex.com/nusoftframework