Proactive Networking, Inc.

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 [...]

We have helped a lot of our clients be productive while they are not in the office.  I am writing this from Route 30 East of Dallas, at 75 miles an hour while my wife is driving and my three year old is staring out the window. I have a Sprint wireless card built into [...]

I got an advanced copy of a CD that one of our clients has written and recorded.  I wasn’t overly excited to get it, as it is a children’s music CD.  I figured I would throw it into the car CD player to entertain my 3-year old while we were driving.  It is called “Wee-phabet [...]

We had the opportunity to test out a Google G1 phone for a couple of weeks.  I had really hoped that it would live up to the hype and I would end up keeping it.  It was not to be.  The form factor of the phone is nice.  It feels good in the hand, although [...]

Unfortunately, I decided to return my iPhone 3G.  I had hoped it might replace my Sprint Treo 700wx.  I found out that ATT would let me return the iPhone within two weeks no questions asked if I didn’t like it.  I took the Treo and the iPhone out to California with me when I went [...]

I have found it interesting that Dell has an “Acquisition Department”.  Their job is to find new business for Dell.  We used to buy components from Supermicro and then build the servers that we supply to our clients.  At one point we quoted a client a Supermicro server and they shared with us the price [...]

Been running off and on for a couple of years with an iPod.  Never have been impressed.  I always have experienced a rhythmic loss of treble as I run.  It sounds similar to when I used to run with a cheap Walkman playing cassette tapes. Yesterday, I finally broke with what seemed like an unbreakable [...]

In the space of a week I noticed three different laptops and a desktop (all different brands, and all with XP) that appeared to be off and then without me doing anything they turned on!  I thought there must be some new Microsoft update that must be causing this odd behavior.  After a bit of [...]