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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
I often have mixed feelings on open source programs. I both love them and hate them at the same time. You see some of the tools I use the most are open source. These tools are easy to use, very functional, and worth their weight in gold. That is the… The Microsoft Patterns and practices is a useful control set for global logging, error handling and database connections. This tool set is great for development, but when you go to deploy it is not so fun. I have added some references of how we were able to get Patterns and… Well I have finally decided to make the actual move from AT&T to Cingular. It is not that I am uhappy with AT&T wireless. It is just that they are no longer around. They are cingular. One issue I am having is that I have a family plan. I did… I am currently reading Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent link here (www.amazon.com) It is part of the stealing the network series. It is a great read. Mostly a mixture of real exploits and technologies is a sci-fi thriller. Not too many new technologies used in the book,… I just found some info on the Microsoft research site. A project called VirtualWiFi. It is a project that allows you to connect your machine to multiple wireless networks at the same time. The quote that I enjoy is that you can play games via one wireless connection and surf… Yesterday I completed my first marathon. On Oct 9th I ran the Chicago Marathon in 4 hours and 27 min. That is near a 10 min mile. I did not know what to expect going into this race. I figured it would be interesting, and I was right. The day… I have blogged about source control before. From online source control like Sourceforge.net or Gotdotnet.com, to Visual source safe (crap) and SourceGear Vault. After using and trying many tools I have realized how some can be very useful and others have their faults (VSS). However, today an issue I had…Open source / GNU / Bad feelings
Microsoft Patterns and Practices
Cingular PooPoo
Now Reading : How to own a Continent
Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi card
Marathon Results
Source Control