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Planning for Success: A fat man’s plan to test for his Second Dan Black Belt
I would expect that when people first see me the first thought that comes to mind is that I am a Martial Artist. One person thought they were being funny and said ‘you look more like you practice sumo wrestling than taekwondo.’ As mean as the snide remark may have been, I suppose it is…
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Virtualization Boot Camp… Failover Clusters sometimes DO fail!
A few weeks ago during the Virtualization Boot Camp in Toronto one of the students encountered an issue with their cluster… i.e.: They horked it beyond repair. I wrote an article on cleaning it up, which was just reposted by the Can IT Pro blog. Check it out! http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/02/14/how-to-clean-up-cluster-nodes-from-destroyed-clusters.aspx
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Looking Back Three Times a Day… with a beginners mind!
As I sat on the flight waiting to take off today I was thinking back to a great class I took while visiting Master’s Taekwondo in New Westminster, British Columbia. Master Young Suh invited me to train with his class, and after he worked us hard for an hour, he had us close our eyes…
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Why We Support Communities
I wrote this article a few days ago, and decided that before I posted it here I would offer it to the CanITPro Team – IT Pro Connection. They published it on January 31st as a guest blog post. I am now republishing it here, so that it can get the most exposure. I have…
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Vacation!
In two hours Theresa and I will board our cruise for a much needed vacation. I will be disconnected during that time, but rest assured I will be writing. When we return to dry land you can expect a series of posts based on the cruise… A travelogue if you will. I want to thank…
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The World According to Mitch: 2011 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many…
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Updating the Dell ‘Customer Service’ issue
For those of you who are keeping track, it has been 10 days since Dell’s ‘Customer Care’ department assured me that they would call me back three days later… and three days before the day I told them I would write my article. As I am out of the country until the 8th, I will…
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A Backhanded Compliment
I was in a meeting the other day with some people who were discussing how I could work with the team, and one of the people said to the group ‘Look, he has to be really good at what he does. Look at him – there’s no way that he gets by on his looks!’…
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The funniest thing said to me today…
Over drinks this evening with an old friend he said to me something I have not heard in over two years: ‘…So earlier this week I finally got around to installing that copy of Windows Vista that you gave me.’ If you do not understand why this is a funny sentence, then just move on…
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A Response to the Cost and Difficulty of IT Certifications
For her article posted yesterday (Microsoft Certification Exams Are Getting Harder) on TrainSignal.com, Kasia Lorenc interviewed Erika Cravens and Krista Wall on how Microsoft certification exams are getting more difficult. While I have not seen the new format, I welcome the challenge – especially if it means that new question formats will eliminate (or at…
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KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!
You may remember that several months ago we built an office for me in the basement. Last month I was getting ready for one of my trips, and all of the lights (well… both) in one row went out at the same time. I figured that the odds that they both burnt together were pretty…
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Customer Service…
On the phone with Dell Customer Support who, after two months STILL have not gotten me a new keyboard that was ordered on September 17th… they are ruining their reputation for a $22 part, and that is really too bad. Let’s see if they are willing to fix it!
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Día de la conmemoración
For the first time in 15 years I am not in North America for Remembrance Day. Nonetheless I have been wearing my poppy all week, and several people have asked me about it – at work, at the community event at Microsoft, at my hotel, in stores and restaurants. In my broken Spanish I have…
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What’s in MY laptop bag?
A couple of years ago I posted an article about what I keep in my laptop bag. Of course that has evolved over the years, but if you have seen my ‘portable datacentre’ you’ll know that I have to pack it pretty efficiently. It is a full Cloud solution with Hyper-V and Live Migration. Would…
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Been quiet…
I know I have been quiet for a few days… On Tuesday I will be on a couple of airplanes which will give me the chance to start writing again… Stay tuned for the 10 NEVER TRY THIS list from my vPTA sessions 🙂
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