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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
Google has been busy
The guys at google have been busy… they released the news reader yesterday and now a html page creater http://pages.google.com I love seeing competition, who knows maybe there will be a google DESKTOP or OS.
Google RSS reader (reader.google.com)
Google launched a new reader (reader.google.com) I have been giving it a try. So far, it is very nice, I like the key controls. I just switched to rss bandit for my RSS reader of choice. I may have to use this online.
C# vs VB.net
Now I am really starting to think that Microsoft is pushing VB.net over C#. Here is a link to a C# converter to change code in C# over to VB.net. Why would you do this? I am not sure. But, in addition to the MY.OBJECT feature only in VB.net and…
Visual Studio 2005 – c# My.object
I have been working with VS 2005 a bit. One of the things I keep hearing people talk about, mainly a friend of mine who is using VB.NET 2005, is the “MY.OBJECT“. He was telling me how easy it is to grab a file and to check if the application…
Wireless USB
I was reading the notes from the CES conference and saw the tag wireless usb. I did not think much about it. Because I thought they were talking about usb wireless cards (which have been around for a bit). I just saw this post (wireless usb) on digg.com and now…
Share Point Alternative
I have had a few people ask me questions on some open-source or alternative portal sites to sharepoint. I have seen a few linux based systems that perform similar tasks to sharepoint but nothing that was on the windows side. Until recently, I ran across (http://www.alfresco.org/) Alfresco is a great…