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Protected: Neither a Hold War nor a Holy Country
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Surface Pro 3: A VERY different experience
If you are a long time reader of this blog you may remember how thrilled I was when I bought the first Microsoft Surface Pro sold in Canada. I wrote about it (including videos) that week (Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro: It’s Here!) and quite a bit subsequently. It was… well, it was a…
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Outlook Looking Out for me AGAIN!
A few hours ago a deadline was about to pass. I had promised someone I would send them the final draft of a file before they got into their office this morning. I also knew that I would not be available to re-send it if there was a problem because of a previous commitment. I…
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Honesty in Advertising
This week-end I lambasted a friend who hosts/produces a radio show about travel for posting that a particular hotel chain wanted to appear on his show to discuss his product, but refused to provide a free stay in exchange for the privilege. I also told him that I know the entire industry works that way,…
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Outlook 2013: Take Action!
I have been using Microsoft Office 2013 since it was in early beta mode, and I still find features on a daily basis that I love. Of course, some of them I have been using all along, like Action Items. Microsoft Outlook analyzes your e-mails and lets you know if it has found things, like…
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Standardize your Hosts: Simplify your Life
For several years I have been speaking and writing about desktop deployment to standardize your client system environment. What about your servers? What about your hypervisors? A couple of years ago VMware introduced Host Profiles into vCenter Server which allow you to take all of the settings from one host and then apply them to…
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Still need help! Walking for ALS in four days!
Hey folks. Last week I reached out to you to support my walk for ALS, and many of you responded and I can’t thank you enough. I am still shy of my goal and really need your help. Anything you can give helps, but bigger numbers mean more help to the people suffering from this…
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Consumer Camp: Your chance to ask the REAL experts!
The MVPs are coming! Yes, on May 29th there will be a plethora of Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) congregating at the Microsoft Store in Square One, Mississauga. Some of us will be there to answer your questions, some will be giving presentations on topics of interest. The rest of us will be there to…
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ALS: Walking for the Cure, and I still need yor help!
It is amazing that earlier this week I reached out to you, my friends, colleagues, and followers, about raising money to support the Walk for ALS that I will be doing in a couple of weeks. I set my goal to raise $1000, and I made my appeal to you to help. It is amazing…
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Please help me to beat ALS.
I don’t ask often, but I need your help. ALL OF YOU. On July 4, 1939, two weeks after his retirement, Lou Gehrig stepped onto the field at Yankee Stadium and proclaimed that he was “…The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth.” Two years later he was dead from a disease that nobody…
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Do you believe…
This Easter week-end I made an unlikely call to a radio talk show on Ottawa’s CFRA. Don’t get me wrong… I have called radio stations before, and am no stranger to being on the air. However the circumstances of my call this particular Sunday morning were probably… out of character, or at least unexpected. The…
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Night of Defiance
Five years ago I was flying home from London just in time for the first Passover Seder. I wrote an essay which I ended up delivering as a guest sermon to my synagogue the following year before Passover, and I have read at my family’s Seder every year since (for reasons I will not go…
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Smoking the competition with meat!
When I was living abroad I had two great friends – Mark Segal and David Goodman – and the three of us were inseparable. The two New Yorkers and I had a lot in common, but one thing that we never agreed on was food… for some reason the two of them never understood the…
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Surface Docked
Earlier this week I posted an article about the versatility of my Surface Pro 2. Actually it was a combination of an article (Battery Up- Windows 8.1 on the Surface Pro 2) and a Facebook status update (See here). I bragged not only about the battery life, but also how cool it is that I…
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How to Make and Choose Friends, and How to Influence People
According to Facebook I have seven hundred and ninety-five friends. Of course that number includes people who asked me to be friends because we know someone in common… but I have have never met them before; it includes people with whom I have agreed with on matters debated or discussed, but have also never met. …
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 