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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


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…

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

Country Account balance

I saw this post on digg and just had to share my thoughts.  America is negative savings.  Wow, this is a shocker.  I mean in a country where the majority of people are in debt.  The average income in Kent county is 51k and the average new car / suv…

Hard Drive Crashes

It seems i’m not the only one who has had some data loss recently.  I read an article this week about a guy who lost his data while moving and had a list of tools and things he used.  Here is an article from lifehacker on the same topic. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php…

Laptop is back

I just got my laptop back. New hard drive, number four. New motherboard. They (the dell team) think that it is a mother board issue (could be power or connections). If this happens again I’m never going to do dell again. As aways the first thing to do on Vista…