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Saying Goodbye to My Best Friend
I have sat down several times over the past fortnight to write a goodbye to my best friend, but have not found the words. Jacob-pup was the best friend a man can have. He was not always well behaved, but he was fiercely loyal to me and to his family. Jacob joined our home when…
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Since When…?
Those of us who have been in the IT industry for a while remember the heady days of never having to reboot a server… otherwise known as ‘The days before Windows Server.’ Those days are long gone, and even non-Windows servers need to be patched and restarted. But how do you know when it last happened?…
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The Bands: Who should I believe?
You think you have problems? I’m lopsided. It would appear that my right arm has taken 1,717 steps this morning, while my left arm has only taken 1,520. For the last few days I was thinking that either the Fitbit Charge or the Microsoft Band was more accurate than the other… but I couldn’t figure…
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Server Core on VMware
When I was a Virtual Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Canada I spent a lot of time telling you why you should use Server Core… especially if you were on Hyper-V. Why? You save resources. It is now over two years since I turned in my Purple Badge, and I still think Server Core rocks. In…
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Smartphone Etiquette
I have often heard discussions on how rude it is to pull out your smartphone during meetings, during meals, and so on. Personally I am against it, but I understand where there may be mitigating circumstances – sick parents or sick children for example. With that said, there are a lot of people who will…
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The Bands: Battery Fail!
Had you asked me last night which device was winning, it was a pretty easy call… I am really loving the Microsoft Band 2. So when I went to bed and turned out the light, I was happy to click the appropriate buttons to set my Sleep cycle… which was really easy to learn on…
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The Bands: Compatible Systems
On Monday I published my first article in the “Battle of the Bands” series between the Microsoft Band (left hand) and the Fitbit Charge (right hand). Yesterday I spoke about my first impressions, and the Microsoft Band seemed to be ahead. Today’s piece – connected applications – weighs heavily in Fitbit’s favour. I have been…
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The Bands: First Impressions
On Monday I published my article announcing that I was going to spend a month wearing two fitness bands: The Fitbit Charge (on my right hand) and the Microsoft Band 2 (on my left hand). In truth I picked them both up and started wearing them on Saturday, so as I sit here (Monday evening)…
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Battle of the Bands
Are you looking forward to the show? Do you want to rock? Yeah? Well… then you’ve come to the wrong place. Battle of the Bands is not going to be about music… it is going to be about wearable fitness devices. Once upon a time, a long long time ago (say… 2010) I bought a…
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A Day In The Life? How about a cycle?
I recently performed an IT Infrastructure audit on behalf of a company in Canada. The client was basically satisfied with what I gave them, but wanted me to elaborate on something. “Mitch, what do you mean when you say we should fully document our processes? What processes? How do we even start? Now, as a…
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Hello? Nice… but is it worth the money
Microsoft has, over the last few versions of the client, made it much easier to log on to Windows. By introducing PINs, Picture Passwords, integrating logons with Microsoft Accounts they have given us a lot more freedom, while taking security quite seriously. I honestly think it is harder to hack into someone’s personal computer today…
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Panic at the Windows to Go Corral…
I really like my Ironkey Windows to Go (WTG) drives. In fact, I like them so much I carry two of them – a W300 (software encrypted with BitLocker) that is domain-joined to one of my clients’ domains, which I use full-time since my corporate laptop went for a swim, and a W500 (hardware encrypted)…
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Covering Your Tracks: Not so easy when walking in the Cloud!
I got a panicked phone call from a client a few weeks ago. Mitch, we fired one of our sales people last month, and we just discovered that she stole all of our client information, and covered their tracks by completely wiping their Outlook clean. We need that information back. Is there anything we can…
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 210,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 9 days for that many people to see…
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I’m Back… and not a single step to show for it!
By the time our plane landed at Holguin, we cleared Passport Control, Security, and had retrieved our luggage, waited for everyone else, and then endured the two hour drive to the resort it was going on 2:00am. To use one of my favourite British slang terms, we were knackered. Still and all, after we checked…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 