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The People Have Said Nothing
An article came across my feed this morning about last week’s elections in Israel. It read: The people have spoken. They want to live in Netanyahu’s Israel. I find that a deceptive headline. Many of us who are familiar with the country have joked for years about how difficult it is to come to a…
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Trusted Senders…
I have received a lot of spam in my day, and I have looked at some of it to see what tricks the bad guys are playing. I received this e-mail on my phone this morning. Please note, it was in my Inbox, and did not go into Junk. Does Microsoft use contractions? You’ve in…
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A Class Act!
I wrote an article that went live earlier called “Do You People READ?” that was inspired by someone who reached out (through an automated tool) on LinkedIn. I even admitted in the article (a word that I seem to be having tremendous trouble typing today on this damned ‘ergonomic’ keyboard) that I was having a…
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Do You People READ?
“Hi Mitch, Looks like you run the marketing system over at Taos. I’m in a similar state here at Fannit; running marketing channels for both our clients and for ourselves. It can feel a bit like being on a treadmill, isn’t it? I’d like to connect and swap stories sometime.” I received this message this…
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Happy Birthday WWW, and Thank you TIM!
According to this morning’s Google Doodle, today is the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. On this day thirty years ago – March 12, 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee turned on his first web server at the CERN labs in Switzerland. In doing so he changed the world. Tim had a few thoughts about what…
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Azure Exams: Different?
Since I started working on Microsoft Azure certifications, I have noticed a lot of things that are quite different from what I am used to. for instance, the single, non-technical AZ-900 exam does give you a certification (Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals). Okay, I passed that exam… but when I went to start looking for courseware…
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Am I Being Watched? Possible, unlikely…
I received this e-mail – apparently from myself – earlier this week. I have actually gotten many of these e-mails over the past few months. On the surface, my e-mail has obviously been hacked – after all, how else could the sender send an e-mail from my own account? Here’s the problem… it was not…
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Azure Fundamentals
Last week my company launched a certification challenge. Yes, they would be rewarding employees who passed certification exams, but they also asked if I would be able to teach a class. My pleasure… but before I teach it, I’d like to pass the exam. I decided that the best way to light a fire under…
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Ch–Ch–Ch–Changes!
I know, I went dark. It has been more than a month since I posted a blog article… and that was just a sample to show my friend Jeff how to do it. To put it mildly, the last two months have been a whirlwind. I will try to start from the beginning. A little…
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Facebook Down?
If you have tried to log on to Facebook over the past couple of hours and have not had any luck, do not try adjusting your set. The company is experiencing very widespread outages across the Americas. According to www.downdetector.com, the outage is greatest on the east coast of North America, but Brazil and Peru…
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Another Way To Scam You…
This morning I got this text message: There is only one problem: I do not now, nor (to the best of my recollection) have I ever banked with Scotiabank. Don’t look now folks, but the bad guys have found another way to try to steal your money. Text Message Phishing. This one is easily spotted.…
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The Safety of Ottawa…
Yesterday MacLean’s Magazine posted their index of the most dangerous (crime-related) cities in Canada. Ottawa, where I currently live, placed a comfortable 145th on the list. I’m good with that – I do not expect to be jumped by a group of marauding bandits when I walk down the street. What I found interesting about…
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Electile Disfunction
Tomorrow our friends to the south (I’m in Canada… for the more geographically challenged, I am referring to the United States of America. Yes, I know about Alaska being part of the USA and being to the north… can we just get on with it? Thank you.) are going to the polls. The mid-term elections…
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Remember
It is that time of year again. The debate over when to put up Christmas decorations has begun. The minute Halloween is over, people rush to put them up. Within a few short days, we go from Orange and Black with spooky melodies to Green and Red with cheerful melodies. I hate it. I have…
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PowerISO: Doing it right
If you would have asked me in the late 1990s when CDs (remember CD-RW?) were starting to replace floppy drives as the primary storage method for desktop PCs and servers if we were ever going to see a day when they were obsolete, the short-sighted young adult that I was would likely have said no. …
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 