Proactive Networking, Inc.

I have believed for a while that quality of life depends directly on the amount of risk you are willing to take. Part of a person’s risk tolerance must be genetic, but a portion of it is certainly choice. I took very little risk in my life until my late 20’s. Even since then, I’ve [...]

In an unofficial 3G data test of dozens of points in the Northern Indianapolis area, Verizon consistently beats ATT in 3G download speed and trounces ATT in upload speed.  The test phones were an ATT  iPhone 3GS vs.  Verizon HTC Droid Eris and Verizon Motorola Droid.  Tests were run using the speedtest.net app for Android [...]

A few weeks ago our Webmaster Allan, asked me to play poker with him and his friends on Thursday nights.  The only catch is that they speak Spanish and I do not – at all.  I took four years of French in high school.  No Spanish, and more importantly no Venezuelan Spanish Slang, which is [...]

I tried out Evernote over the weekend.    From the site, it is described as: “Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.” Basically it is a web app that allows you to [...]

I have spent over two hours on the phone with ATT Friday and today trying to get a simple DSL account provisioned at one of our client’s remote offices.  Everyone I talk to at ATT is very nice, except for their automated attendent who is incompetant and should be scrapped – the slightest background noise [...]

In the process of putting in an additional web server to further speed up client websites.

I would like to thank dml2912 on the Dell Community forums.  I don’t know who you are, but your post solved a problem for me on my Dell D830 laptop that has nagged me since I got it over a year ago – stuttering audio.  It was a simple fix, but one that a dozen [...]

I enjoy learning from my 4-year-0ld as much as I enjoy teaching him.  This morning he said, “Daddy, do we have a lot of money?”  I said, “Sure, we are in good shape.” Confidently allaying any fears he might have about our financial position.   He then responded, “Good, then you can stay home from [...]

I bought a meter that shows how much an electrical appliance you are using is costing you: P3 Kill A Watt So far, I have tested it on my Dell Latitude D830 laptop which is hooked to a 17″ monitor through a docking station.  The unit calculated that if I left the laptop on for [...]

I am continually amazed how in life there really are no shortcuts.  In sports, one can take performance enhancing drugs to get to where one wants in a short time.  In college I lifted weights with some guys who were “juicing.”  I was amazed at their ability to lift hard and recover quick.  While I [...]