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Remembrance Day / Veterans’ Day
Ninety-six years ago today at 11:00am the guns fell silent. The Great War was over. Unfortunately like every successful movie there was a sequel, and as usual it was much worse than the original. War has been a part of our world since time immemorial, and to this day we dream of a day when…
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When Your World is Very Small…
In my first year as a Road Warrior Glenn Fincher and I were I were in the Rental Car Shuttle heading to the terminal at Charlotte International Airport. It had been another successful delivery, and except for the fact that he threatened to leave me at the diner where we had breakfast unless I ate…
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Fourth Year: Thank you once again!
Thank you. Three years ago The World According to Mitch, a blog that I started because the two or three dozen people to whom I would e-mail my thoughts and insights got sick of getting my e-mails, was recognized by BizTech Magazine as one of the 50 Must Read IT Blogs. For that year there…
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Mistakes Happen… Please let me know when they do! :)
In August, 2008 I wrote an article called The Vasa – Learn from History! It talked about the Vasa Museum in Stockholm and I drove a direct line from that doomed ship to the IT industry. It was well received, and according to the statistics the article has been read by thousands of people in…
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My OMAC Profile
A little over a year ago I was going to take over management of the website for the Oriental Martial Arts College (Master Kim’s OMAC). Several issues, including my long-term relocation to Japan, aborted that. However I am thrilled to be back with OMAC now, as a Senior Instructor and not as a webmaster. This week…
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Losing Me…
At the beginning of October I wrote an article called ‘Losing a Part of Me… What I would like to share.‘ I subsequently named the blog which I am correlating all of my weight loss articles ‘Losing a Part of me.’ I have even registered the domain name LosingAPartOf.Me. I got the idea from a friend…
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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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