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Thanks for your support!
Over the past few days I have received an incredible number of you asking what happened, if I am okay, and if I will be alright. I can assure you I am. Let me explain. A great many of you have known me as a Microsoft contractor. I have been for quite some time, first…
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Gone for Walkabout…
One of my very good friends, Erdal Ozkaya, picked me up Sunday morning for an incredible day in and around Sydney. He and his family took me to two very famous beaches – Manly Beach (where Erdal’s son and I practiced our Taekwondo) and Bondi Beach. They took me to a place called Woolloomooroo (which…
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AC03: Flying with Phaedra!
As I walked down the gangplank toward my ‘home in the air’ for the next eleven hours I heard even before I could see her the head Flight Attendant on Air Canada flight 003 from Vancouver to Tokyo. She was on the PA system almost cheerleading her staff, and as I appeared she put on…
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A response to a VMware article… written by someone I respect.
While he may not be very well know to the Microsoft community, Mike Laverick is a legend in VMware circles. Mike owns a blog called RTFM Education, a source of white papers for VMware technology, although he did start out as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He now works for VMware as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure…
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Stewing in my anger…
It is amazing to me how rude some people can be while expecting you to be nice and polite. The first week that I was here (or maybe the second) I discovered a little darts pub. Before you get any ideas, this is not like any pub I have ever been in – it is…
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Managing Hyper-V Virtual Machines with Windows PowerShell
Warning: The following post was written by a scripting luddite. The author readily admits that he would have difficulty coding his way out of a paper bag, and if the fate of the world depended on his ability to either write code or develop software then you had better start hoarding bottled water and cans…
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Japan: Day 1
I arrived at the hotel thoroughly exhausted yesterday, which I suppose is to be expected. Fortunately the check-in process was smooth and simple, and I got into my room within five minutes. If I had to pick a single word to describe Japan so far it would be Efficient. Certainly it is clean and everyone…
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About.Me
Hey Readers! I was wondering how many of you use the About.Me site for profiles? Do you have your own? Do you look at others’? I have had a profile for a while, but decided yesterday (I don’t know why) to actually populate it. I’d like your opinions, as well as suggestions of what I…
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Mall of America
I love my parents… I really do. I just don’t always enjoy spending time with them. I dislike shopping, and I hate mall. So when my parents asked me to take them to the Mall of America this morning I figured I would grin and bear it. Thankfully at the middle of this retail hell…
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The TechNet Subscription for MCTs
Originally posted on The World According to Mitch: As you have probably heard, the TechNet Subscription service is going away. If you have your subscription because you are an MCT, or are hoping to get it because you are (or will soon be) an MCT, then there is a very important milestone coming up next…
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The TechNet Subscription for MCTs
As you have probably heard, the TechNet Subscription service is going away. If you have your subscription because you are an MCT, or are hoping to get it because you are (or will soon be) an MCT, then there is a very important milestone coming up next week. August 31, 2013 will be the last…
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The Wonders of Time Travel
I remember sitting in a nearly identical hotel room over eight years ago only a few miles down the road from where I am today and being amazed that I was on a business trip to Redmond, Washington. At the time I was a small-business IT consultant working for TradeLabs in Montreal, wondering what direction…
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Drivers Beware… Let’s communicate!
I been yelled at by several drivers this week. The Traffic Circle The first incident was my fault. I had a screaming child in the back seat and was trying to pay attention, but honestly I entered a traffic circle without watching as closely as I should have. There was no risk of collision (unless…
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Even when rising from humble beginnings it is best to remain humble…
I started blogging about a decade ago… I started writing articles for my friends and family which I would e-mail to them as early as the late 1990s, and in 2001 I registered my first domain name and put up my first website (www.e-mitch.com). I would post my articles and writings there, hoping that one…
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