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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


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.

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.

I.E. 7.0

I have been using the beta I.E. 7.0 for about two weeks now.  It is interesting to see how this version of the browser works.  Microsoft has done their homework in this upgrade.   The major changes that I like are: Tabs, settings, and Favorite groups.  There are a lot more items that…

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…

AJAX Book

A friend of mine is currently in the process of writing a AJAX .NET book. He is expecting a May / June release. The publishing company released a summary of the contents of the book today. Head on over to Apress and view the upcoming “Pro Ajax and the .NET…

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…