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Remembrance Day / Veterans’ Day
Ninety-six years ago today at 11:00am the guns fell silent. The Great War was over. Unfortunately like every successful movie there was a sequel, and as usual it was much worse than the original. War has been a part of our world since time immemorial, and to this day we dream of a day when…
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When Your World is Very Small…
In my first year as a Road Warrior Glenn Fincher and I were I were in the Rental Car Shuttle heading to the terminal at Charlotte International Airport. It had been another successful delivery, and except for the fact that he threatened to leave me at the diner where we had breakfast unless I ate…
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Losing Me…
At the beginning of October I wrote an article called ‘Losing a Part of Me… What I would like to share.‘ I subsequently named the blog which I am correlating all of my weight loss articles ‘Losing a Part of me.’ I have even registered the domain name LosingAPartOf.Me. I got the idea from a friend…
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Thank you!
After a spectacular end to 2013, I crashed in January, and spent several months in a terrible funk. There were several telltale signs that you could see if you were paying close attention, but the truth is I did my best to hide it. One of the parts of my life that suffered the effects though…
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Who wears the pants…
I would not be surprised if nearly every person out there who has struggled with their weight does not have several sets of clothes – ranging from the stuff that fits when they are at their heaviest to the stuff that fits when they were their lightest. I am no different. Earlier this year when…
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Madame Mayor
I have lived in three ‘primary’ metropolitan areas in my life… Montreal, Tel-Aviv, and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Looking at the three main cities, none has had (of late) a stellar record of urban leadership. Montreal has been plagued with corruption, and Toronto… well, on this civic election day let’s not harp on the record of…
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Milestones
This morning I stepped onto the scale and got an unexpected surprise… I was, for the first time (since I started losing weight last August) under a certain multiple of ten (I am still not telling you what I weigh, so you can try to guess but you will be wrong). It was a very…
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Dropbox: The saga continues
Dropbox was not hacked. At least, that is according to them. And in truth it wasn’t… at least, not in the strict definition of the word hacked. With that being said, it was compromised. It could in fact be that another service was hacked, but the hackers then cross-referenced those passwords to Dropbox and found hundreds…
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Dropbox users beware
It has happened again. If you use Dropbox there has been another massive security breach. It is vital that you change your passwords now… Along with the password on any other site where you use the same password. (Admit it, yes you do it!)
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Are you embarrassed?
Originally posted on The World According to Mitch: We have all done things that we are ashamed of, embarrassed by, or simply regret. If anyone tells me that they have not then I will say they are probably lying. The thing is, the world has changed over the past few years, and there are two…
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Bypassing IT: A REALLY bad idea.
Wow. I just read an e-mail that made me lose a lot of respect for one of the most respected publications in the world of journalism: The Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com). The article, Ten Things Your IT Department Won’t Tell You, outlines several (would you believe 10) issues that employees encounter with corporate systems, and…
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The Evils of Offices…
I have really been enjoying working at Yakidoo. The people are really nice, I am enjoying the work, it’s all good. However they are out to get me, the lot of them… As I have mentioned in the recent past I have been losing weight. It is, as anyone who has gone before me knows,…
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Nothing Technical Today
If you are Jewish, and especially if you are from Montreal… make sure you do this: Find 15 minutes where you can watch YouTube videos, and look up Yid-Life Crisis. Trust me, they are hilarious… even if you don’t speak Yiddish! 🙂 Thanks to my sister Jen for showing me the way!
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Losing a Part of Me… What I would like to share.
Last week I posted on Facebook that I have lost 25lbs in the past three months, and a lot of people offered words of congratulations and encouragement. I want to thank them for that. The truth is, I have struggled with my weight for the past twenty years. Since before I got out of the army…
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