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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
SunRocket to shutdown
I am a true believer in VOIP. I use Vonage at home and have used SKYPE before that, as a phone system in my house. I love our country where competition allows for the prices to stay low and technology and creativity to flourish. However, one down side is when…
Tech Crunch
The guys from spout have a post out at techcrunch Spout: MySpace + Netflix Take a look
IIS Compression
Here is a great article on how to setup and configure compression in IIS 6.0 http://www.iisinformation.com/ I have used IIS compression many times to decrease bandwidth and improve end user performance.
Social Media
Great post on lifehack.org (http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/digg-life-how-social-media-will-change-the-world.html) Discussing how social media will / could change how we get information. To some extent I agree with the post, but I do still like my Sunday paper (old school media) to catch up on local information and also to have something physical to read….
Backup – Backup – Backup
Last week I lost my hard drive in my laptop. The everyday laptop that I use for almost everything. It was about 1 month old (new dell D820 laptop). The drive in the laptop is nice a 7200 RPM (SATA) drive, but have seen some failures (Dell forums). The drive…
Sites I visit frequently
I am often asked what sites do I visit. I used to check everything via RSS and I still do, however I often find a few min just to see what is going on so I head to my trusty sites: 1. Digg.com 2. Techcrunch.com 3. lifehacker.com 4. Slashdot.org (used…
Broadband
This is a great read. A user lost his internet access from Comcast for using too much bandwidth. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2111373,00.asp How much bandwidth is too much. In the article comcast actually responded with a great “non answer”. Something to the effect that he was using more than 100,000 times the…
SQL Express Backup
I use sql express for a lot of things. On my development server and also on some production sites. Some of the things that I have noticed is the lack of a backup solution or automation of a backup solution. I found this article and script to generate a backup…
An Idea, some hardware, and dedication – you could too.
Here are some pics of the original google hardware from 98. http://backrub.tjtech.org/May1998/hardware.htm 2 guys, an idea, and a little hard work. They changed our search style’s, they changed the NYSE, they make a new use for the word google. I’ll never forget the day when my Mom said that she…