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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


GeoURL 2.0

Geo URL 2.o is finally out. I have been using geourl for a long time and went to check the site for some new information and noticed that it was down. The had taken geourl down to upgrade to 2.o. GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you…

Upgrade to 1.5

Well I just upgraded the site to WordPress 1.5 (www.wordpress.org) Lots of nice new features. So far everything looks like it is working. We will have to see.

Soccer on US TV

Ok I am finally going to rant. I can’t get any Soccer on TV. I currently pay a ton of money for cable TV each month. My current plan does not come with espn 2 or foxsports net. Now most of you out there would probably say that is not…

Tourney Logic – Match Play Pool Completed

The Tourney logic Match Play pool ended. The scores were lack luster. You can read more at Joel’s blog. I didn’t win, but like all pools and leagues, it made me watch more sports. The same thing happens when I play fantasy soccer or football. It keeps me excited to…

WordPress 1.5 is out

WordPress has released their new version 1.5. WordPress is the blog software I use to run jimiz.net. It is a great application and my hat goes off to the developers. One thing I hope to get out of the upgrade (I will be upgrading this weekend) is to be able…

Picasa – The image application

I have been thinking of the best piece of software I have every used. It probably has boiled down to most recently Firefox and Picasa. Unless you have been living under a rock you probably know about firefox. So Let me tell you a bit about Picasa. Picasa was recently…

Phillips Senseo

I frequently listen to Adam Curry and his podcast the Daily Source Code. He has often mentioned his love of the philips Senseo coffee maker. So I decided this weekend I was going to get one. And I have to admit, this is one great coffee maker. The Philips Senseo…

Tourney Logic – Pool

My friend Joel has opened up a tourney on his site tourneylogic.com. He has some good info on his blog Joel has created program with a bracket control, for tournaments. You can visit tourneylogic.com