My wife attended the "Federal Contracts for Small Business Workshop" this morning at TechColumbus, another BUST. Apparently there were a number of other "Small Business" owners in attendance but the meeting was not for us, it was for that group of 5-10 people with money, with connections to the university or some other "connected" [...]

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I have noticed in my past and current ventures and underwhelming at the market place. Why are my products and services not adopted? This is a difficult question to answer some options include:

Am I out of touch with the market place?
Is my marketing budget too small?
Am I not patient enough?

I could be out of touch, [...]

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Well the trip to Redmond was not a total loss, the MSDN subscription has come in quite handy. The first thing I started working with was Visual Studio 2005 because I had some problems with Suns Implementation of The Communications API for Windows, and the Java Media Framework. It seems that Sun as abandon those [...]

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After about 13 months I have just about completed work my workshop/garage. Yes leaving the basement at the old house was difficult, but after selling it in Feb. and with Emily's help painting the walls, it looks pretty kick butt! Now only if I had a fence….

Anyway, back to the garage. I was able to [...]

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I got a call from John Kuss this morning and I am going to have to cancel our Columbus Robotics Meeting next Wednesday because that's the only time they said they can meet.

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4:30pm: Yes, they cancelled the meeting… We got a call at 4:06pm today that the 7:30 meeting tonight was cancelled… More to follow…

7:25pm: Well, I had to blow off some steam, so I cleaned the garage some more, and I think we are going to grab a few beers tonight with Ron & Sophia.

I [...]

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As a startup entrepreneur I have been led to believe from the books and magazines and the people working for startup helper organizations that all you need is a solid business plan comprising of an easy to understand business model, solid management team, etc. But they all leave out one very important thing, YOUR [...]

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I have decided to take the plunge and create a Vista Ultimate for my Media Center PC to augment my DVD/Stereo/HDTV set-up. The price of the case to the left was $109 @MicroCenter.

My first attempt to build will be from some left-over parts [...]

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I was going through some old parts today and decided to make a PC.

Case - Check, this was my old, loud PC for the office.
Memory - Check, 512MB of PC133
Motherboard - Check, Asus AK32V.
CPU - Check, 1GHz Athlon, no XP, MP, 64, Etc.
Hard Disk - Check, a 20GB Western Digital (old Feynman1 Robot Disk)
Network [...]

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This really bothers me, so much so that it's 2am working on a fence justification document. This has already cost me about 8 hours today, I wish I could sue for lost wages…

To top this whole thing off, they could still deny my fence, then fine me $100/day and put me in jail and though [...]

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