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New Interior…
I nearly panicked when I boarded the Air Canada Boeing 777-300 that will take me to Vancouver, for the connecting flight to Seattle. The First Class cabin did not have the pods that I was used to… just regular seats… …or so it seemed. In truth they have revamped the cabin and while the pods…
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Private Posts
I want to thank all of you who reached out to me this morning when you could not get into my ‘private’ article. I wanted to share something that I had written (that believe it or not is far too incendiary to post on this site) with an old army buddy, so I pass-word protected…
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Way Way Back!
There is a nifty tool on the Internet called the Wayback Machine. It lets you see what websites looked like a long time ago. My blog (garvis.ca, as well as virtualizationczar.com) evolved from mitchgarvis.com, which came about when I decided to take my blog off mitpro.ca. However before any of those there was e-mitch.com, and…
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2014: No growth, but no shrinkage.
I want to thank you all, the great readers of The World According to Mitch. 2013 was a year of huge growth for my blog. I spent the first few months with Microsoft, and so I was cross-posting all of my blogs from there to here (and vice-versa). The last four months of the year…
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Ending Snow Days? Sorry kids, but it SHOULD happen soon.
Originally posted on The World According to Mitch: 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…
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Drinking When I Need A Drink…
I made a decision several years ago. I decided that any time that I said ‘I need a drink’ I would not have one. I would not use alcohol to solve my problems, reduce my stress, make my life easier. Why? Because from what I could tell that is one of the easiest ways to…
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I Feel Fat.
I woke up this morning and waddled into the washroom. I couldn’t believe how big I felt. I must have gained 20lbs. I looked at the scale with fear and loathing. I have been called a lot of names in the past, but never a coward. I stepped onto the little crappy appliance that was…
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A Brief Explanation…
Yesterday I posted a blog article that was taken down after a few minutes. It read: ‘Now do you believe that I am who I say I am?’ As soon as I realized that it was pushed out to Facebook, Twitter, and all of my followers I took it down. Nevertheless, I have been asked…
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Comments
The vast majority of comments to any blog I would expect are spam engines. That is why I make sure that every comment gets approved before you see it. However I do check all of my comments (or at least, those that the Spam engines do not catch) and post them immediately… even if I…
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1,200 Japanese workers convert above-ground train to subway line in a matter of hours
I found Japan to be among the most organized places I have ever been. I am not going to say that everything is efficient – there were a lot of ridiculous wastes that I discovered. However when they want to get things done, that is a country that knows how to do it. I spent…
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Out of Band Security Updates
If you run Windows Server this is very important. Microsoft released today a number of out-of-band security updates for Microsoft Windows. From what I have read, these patches (One of my servers has 14 applicable updates since 3am) will be applied to Windows clients as well as Windows Servers, but the vulnerability it protects is…
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