Category: Article
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My Future Goals in Tae Kwon Do and Why I Want to Achieve Them
On Saturday May 26th I pre-tested for my Second Dan Black Belt test. The actual test is this coming Saturday, June 2. The Second Dan candidates were given a writing assignment to complete: “My Future Goals in Tae Kwon Do and Why I Want to Achieve Them.” I spent most of Sunday thinking about this, […]
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T-5: Part One
This past Saturday I pre-tested for my Second Dan Black Belt test. The actual test is this coming Saturday, June 2. The Second Dan candidates were given a writing assignment to complete: “My Future Goals in Tae Kwon Do and Why I Want to Achieve Them.” I spent most of Sunday thinking about this, and […]
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Does Quebec Have a Future in Canada? Whose Call is it?
Last week the National Post (one of two national newspapers in Canada that are actually quite focused on Ontario) published a survey asking Canadians to respond to the question of whether Quebec actually deserved to remain in Canada. “Does Quebec have a future in Canada?” Of course, if you have lived in Canada or North […]
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19 Days Out: Where my Black Belt prep stands!
It is difficult to imagine, but I am now inside the three week mark. In nineteen days – June 2nd, 2012 – I will be testing for my Second Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo. I have not been blogging as much as I should, so I am going to take this opportunity to review the […]
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Leave Mayor Ford Alone!
Wow, I’ll bet that none of you would have thought I would ever post something so political… well, it’s not. Read on. First of all, for those of you who do not know the Greater Toronto Area, I should explain that I actually live in a city called Oakville, Ontario. When I am outside of […]
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Oakville.Com Tech Tuesday
This morning my most recent article for www.oakville.com was published – a couple of weeks late (my fault). Because it is meant to be more consumer focused than enterprise it will certainly appeal to a certain segment of my readers! It is called ‘How can I protect myself from data loss?’ and it is about […]
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Oakville.com
Hey folks! For those of you who have been asking about my Tech Tuesdays column in Oakville.com, I wanted to reassure you that it is coming. In fact, it has been submitted and approved, and is scheduled to run on Tuesday, March 20th. This was due to my missing a deadline (those of you who […]
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Ending Snow Days? Sorry kids, but it SHOULD happen soon.
This month I had lunch with Sharon Bennett, a veteran of the IT industry and blogger. We discussed a number of topics relating to both technology and community… I asked her a ton of questions, and the one that got me the most intriguing answer was: ‘What would you like to see technology do in […]
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Oakville.com
Today is the day… My first article went live at Oakville.com, and that is very exciting for me. It is great to be able to give back to the community where I live… that I have called home for the past five years. It is amazing… the first time I spoke with my wife (Theresa) […]
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Coming Home… A New Venture!
I am a Road Warrior. I have been one for several years, since before I moved to the Halton Region. In fact since I moved to Oakville in 2007 I have spent more time away than at home, in over one hundred cities in more than a dozen countries. I have spoken to audiences of […]
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This Is A Scam!
I knew something was fishy when the phone rang and the Call Display showed a call-back number of 666-035-3612 because, as we all know, 666 is the area code of the beast. I waited the five seconds for the auto-dialer system to connect me to a real operator. ‘Hello, my name is Gary from the […]
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Day 4: Wednesday Morning, 3AM
I have not been sleeping very well during the cruise. I don’t know if that is because I am relaxing so much during the day, or what else it might be. I certainly have not been lying awake worrying about… well, anything. The cruise has been a nearly stress-free time, and I have always been […]
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Day 3: Strategy
There are two types of people who play backgammon. People who play the game casually and, when playing with another person of the same caliber, will probably win more or less as many as he loses. Then there are the people who have studied the game, the strategies, the odds. I remember as a teenager […]
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Caribbean Cruise: Day of Departure
As we left Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida I felt my hands shaking a bit. It had nothing to do with the rumbling of the engines of the Carnival Freedom, but rather the beginning of a long process of decompression and relaxation that I hope will be completed before we return to the same […]
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