Blog
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.
Contact
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
At the Tone the Time will be – Sorry No time
I finally found out some information about the local time number. You know, the number you could call and a nice lady would come on and tell you what time it was. After some research I found out that SBC Michigan has discontinued the service. I first found out about…
Death of the album
I keep reading blogs with people talking about the death of the album. In fact on slashdot they have a story HERE from the Washington Post about the death of CD’s. The idea is that we can all make our plastic (cd’s , dvd, tapes) and we will no longer…
Migration to Sourceforge.net
I have finally completed the move from gotdotnet.com to sourceforge.net. You can get to the sourceforge page at this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iisreporter/ So far I have been really happy with the sourceforge location. I ended up udating my CVS to use sourceforge. I am currently using both SourceSafe and TortoiseCVS. Just…
Launch of IISreporter.com
I finally go around to launching the site iisreporter.com. Both to hold the iisreporter project but to also allow for a place to discuss IIS issues. Please email me if you have any more ideas. www.iisreporter.com Still working on content.
Mobile Devices
Well I have been searching for the perfect mobile device. Cell phone, handheld, and web browsers. Let me tell you that I have not found it yet. This all started with the need for a new cell phone. After testing a Palm Treo 600, and the black berry I decided…
AOL Standalone Browser
I do a lot of coding for web sites and web applications. One of the major issues we have is the way an app or site renders in a particular browser. For example, a site that uses tags will render entirely different in Firefox / Mozilla than in I.E. This…
Google Maps
Google just released their beta of google maps. http://maps.google.com It seems to me like the browser wars of years ago. Now instead we have MSN, Google, and Yahoo. Each seem to be trying to out do each other. MSN launching a new engine, google adding powerful services, and yahoo just…
The Code Room
I was channel surfing last night and ran across a show called “The Code Room“. It is a reality show about coding. Put on by MSDN TV. You can watch the full show on MSDN TV – HERE In this pilot show, 3 programers are locked in a room with…