Today, it was made official that East Central Opportunities Inc. / Prep4 Business Solutions will be shutting down operations.

I have been employed by ECO for just over 10 years as the IT Director, or more commonly called the “IT Guy”. As the IT guy for ECO I was responsible for all technology systems and data reporting. When ECO had the contract to manage the WorkOne offices in Region 6 (Rush, Fayette, Wayne, Randolphh, Delaware, Henry, Jay, and Blackford Indiana counties) I built and managed a 10 location wide area network and actively outsourced my IT experiences and website development skills to other organizations as well.
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I have been a Red Sox fan since the days of Ted Williams. Yup as a youngster I watched Ted Williams, Carliton Fisk and Carl Yastrzemski play in what I think is the greatest ballpark ever built, Fenway. (Well watched on TV, that is)

I was a fan of other teams as well, like Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Now Cincinnati was a great team and when I was young we would vacation at Riverfront for two weeks every year. But these other teams just could not hold a candle to the stigma of being a Redsox fan.  Watch this video to fully understand what I am talking about here.

Over the last few years I have seen a real public shift from a focus on computer hardware to an almost overwhelming fascination over applications. I give credit to this shift to the cell phone. Since cell phones have evolved from a flip talk device to a miniature computer used for personal online browsing, e-mail, calendaring, tracking oil changes, and ordering pizza. » Continue reading “Computer Hardware- Just not as important”