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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


Getting Things Done – Currently Reading

I’m currently reading the book “Getting Things Done”. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142000280/sr=8-1/qid=1144584136/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6726123-6659239?%5Fencoding=UTF8 I have not posted much so I figure I can just update on what is going on.

Ideal notebook

I have been thinking more about what would be the perfect laptop.  The current model I have (Dell Latitude D800) is very under par.  Not only is it too big and bulky, it is very inefficient to use.  I started to think of what would make the perfect development /…

SQL 2005

I have been working a lot with SQL 2005 recently.  I have to say that it is a fantastic upgrade from 2000.  However, there are a lot of areas of improvement.  Some of which are related to management and updates.  Overall, it is a great upgrade.  the tools are good,…

Sweet Screen Saver

I have had a type of fondness for screen savers.  I have wrote a few (checkout out the link on the right), so when I saw the screen saver that Adrian Crenshaw wrote(http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/packetfountain) I had to give it a try.  He has put the source out there and I plan on…

Remote Desktop Tricks (Terminal Service Client)

I am often asked about how to remote control or use a remote windows server.  Most people know how to use Remote Desktop to connect but do not know all the features available.  The most common question I get is how to transfer files.  Built into The Remote desktop client…

Computer History at it’s best

Here is a link to a google video about the ARPanet (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7426343190324622223) I just love history like this.  These guys could not even fathem what they started back then.   Amazon, Google, and even verisign would not be around.  Not to mention companies like cisco.

Spout.com

The current project I have been working on for the last 6 months went live today.  www.spout.com is a community bases site focusing on films, dvd’s, and people. It is using community server (www.communityserver.org), and a lot of web 2.0 features.  Please check it out.