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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.

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US Soccer – Easter Sunday – ESPN2

Here is some more soccer info for those interested out there. The US National team plays on Easter Sunday (March 27th) agains Mexico. This should be a great game. ESPN2 is coverng the game at 1:00 PM Eastern. This is an important game, it is a qualfiying game for the…

Final Blade Story

Well it is almost over. I may actually have a new server by the middle of next week. We never did get a working 1655mc server, even after another batch of parts. So dell is now sending a new servers to replace our broken ones. I hope this works. I…

Blade Server UPdate

Well last night, Friday night we tried all new parts again in our server. We have a each and every part of that server as new. And it will not POST… Nothing, it does not even error to the screen. So as a final resolve I have a new server…

Dell 1655MC

Here is my story, it is 1:00 AM and a DHL delivery guy just parts for my Dell Blade Server. It is the second parts delivery, they ship right to your location in 4hrs. Dell has great service, however in cases like this service is not enough. You see I…

Tourney Logic – NCAA Pool

For those of you out there who are NCAA basketball fans, don’t forget to get your copy of Tourney Logics March Madness Pool Manager. It is the best way to manage a pool in your office or neighborhood. There are a few version of the pool manager. One is an…

Purchase of IPOD

Well I finally did it, I broke down and purchased an IPOD. I ended up with an IPOD mini. I decided to go with the 4 Gig, silver mini. You can see it here (apple.com) You may be wondering why I did this purchase when I already have a very…

How has P2P changed your Music Tastes

I was reading slashdot and found an interesting “ASK Slashdot Question” the question was Has P2P influenced your music tastes. I got to thinking about this, and was stunned at my own response. I have to answer that is has changed my music tastes. I own, or did own a…

FireFox issues Continued

Well I have been having issues w/ a few of my sites and Firefox. Each site (including this one) uses CSS and did not have issues till a few days ago. Infact, I build most of my sites and test all of my sites in firefox. They were working correctly…