Author: Jim Collison

Rich’s Random Podcast Generator: CrashPlan, Drobo, Mac Mini, Backup Solutions – RRPG018

Nathaniel Lindley joins Jim Collison and Rich O’Neil on RRPG #18 to talk about how he uses a Mac Mini, CrashPlan and Drobo together for his home and social back up strategy.  A former CrashPlan employee, Nathaniel has a lot of interesting things to say about this solid and flexible backup solution.   Listen Mobile:… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Rich’s Random Podcast Generator – PC Repair, Logitech Webcams, iTunes, Windows Phones 7 & 8 – Lumia 800 + 900, Drobo Mini and 5D, mSATA SSDs, Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock – RRPG017

Mike Howard, Eddie Ramirez, Tim Black, and Paul Braren join Jim Collison and Rich O’Neil for some talk about PC repair, Apple love/hate, white-knuckling over the coming of Windows Phone 8, Drobo’s next (fast) storage devices with mSATA SSD capability, Paul’s personal experience with Lenovo’s USB 3.0 Dock, and Eddie’s new computer repair bench which… Click for more / Podcast Player>

My Dad’s Legacy: The Stamp Collection

Last February, my father, Walter R. Collison Jr. passed away after surviving a war, a heart attack, a stroke, 5 kids, a complete loss of balance and many other ailments that slowed him in his last decade.  This last week, I traveled to a very smoky Colorado Springs to meet with my family and make some decisions on what to do with his stuff.  He didn’t have a lot and we were able to through it in a single day.  Without much fuss, we kept some things, donated others and recycled the rest.  In some families, this is a very

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Home Tech Podcast: Future of Windows Phone (2012)

Jim is joined the week by special guest Greg Welch, Kevin Schoonover and Tim Black to cover the 5th podcast in the Windows Phone series. The guys took some time to talk about their current Windows Phones then we dove right into talking about the future of Windows Phone and covered the new features that… Click for more / Podcast Player>

It’s all about The Microsoft Surface Tablet! – HT078

Jim, Christian and Andrew are joined this week by John Stutsman and John Zajdler for Show 78 of The Home Tech Podcast. This show was all Microsoft Surface Tablet news. MozyPro–secure online backup for businesses Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/renderingassets/surfacespecsheet.pdf   The Average Guy… Click for more / Podcast Player>

2012 Bennington Daze 5 Mile Run

June 16, 2012  A record number of runners (somewhere in the neighborhood of 150) turned out this morning for fairly flat and fast 5 mile fun run at Bennington Elementary School in Bennington, Nebraska.  It was a fund raiser for the St. John’s Outreach there in town.  Bennington is in the northwest corner of the Omaha metro and was very easy to get to from Bellevue.  It was a nicely run event. First off, I LOVE small town runs!  Just cannot get enough of them.  Would run them every weekend if I could.  This race was $10 for the run,

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