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A Picture is Worth…
A couple of years ago I attended the Microsoft Convergence Conference in New Orleans. The HP booth had hired a caricature artist to draw people, and using his Wacom digitizer he drew an absolutely amazing one of me. His name by the way was Stephen King – no relation to the author. I used that picture for……
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Slinging Chucks
I love Taekwondo. I took it up seven years ago as an activity I could share with my son, but he never took to it the way I did. Okay, we still do other things together… and I am now Instructor Garvis to the myriad Taekwondo students at OMAC. Taekwondo was not my first martial…
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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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Gilad’s FIRST Belt Test!
Allow me to kvel a little, if I may. Kvel is a Yiddush word that is somewhere between bragging and exuding pride. I’m not exactly sure… I don’t speak Yiddush very well. In September Theresa and I enrolled our little boy in Taekwondo. We had discussed a couple of years ago that when he was…
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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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Obvious? No…
I learned a lesson today, after I thought I had heard it all. It seems that when there is mould in your server room it is important to specify to everyone involved at every level that the equipment in there – often valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention the potential for…
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Keep it Clean… it will last longer!
Last night at Taekwondo two women (a student and a parent) asked me the same question: ‘Is that a new dobok?’ The dobok is of course the uniform we wear, and until you are a Senior Instructor in our system it is white with our logo on the back. Additionally I have two flag patches…
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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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Hyper-V 2008 R2: Still good enough?
I manage a vSphere environment at work, and it is a real change from the last few years when I spent all of my time talking about Hyper-V. I want to be clear – it is not better or worse, it is just… different. We have a number of virtualization hosts, plus a physical domain…
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It is a Loooong Journey…
The scale this morning was kind to me… down 1.7lbs over yesterday. However looking at my 30 day graph I am only down 8lbs this month… respectable, but not where I want it to be (10lbs per month). Last week I was sitting with the Educator at the Weight Management Clinic and she looked through…
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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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The journey continues…
Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight – I don’t mean ten or twenty pounds, but a significant amount of weight – will know that there is a certain point when you start to feel the weight loss, not only because you see the numbers on the scale, but in other facets of life. …
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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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