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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


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.

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…