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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. …
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Stay out of politics!
A couple of years ago I went to Montreal with my colleague Damir Bersinic to do a presentation at the Montreal IT Professionals Community (www.mitpro.ca). I was born in Montreal, and when I moved to Ontario in 2007 I found it interesting to see the point of view of the ‘Rest of Canada’. Nearly five…
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Battery Up: Windows 8.1 on the Surface Pro 2
I have already bragged about the Surface Pro 2, and I still love it and that has not changed. It took a lot for it to supplant my Lenovo X1 Carbon as my primary device (my original Surface Pro was always simply a companion device). The device rocks, simply put. One thing that I don’t…
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My Famous Pooch!
I had forgotten about this one… but apparently her story is still on-line! Gingit has grown up some and earned some trust… but she is still one that has to be watched! She is now six years old… this is from when she was 8 months. -M I am so proud of Gingit… Yesterday she…
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Certification Exams: Is there a value to failing?
Although it is not something I am proud of, I have failed a number (the exact number is quite secret!) of certification exams. I am not proud of this fact, but the reality is I have taken a number of exams that I have been unprepared for, and that is a sure-fire way to come…
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How Many Changing Rooms Do We Need?
In January Christina Blizzard of the Toronto Sun published an excellent piece called Political Correctness Shouldn’t Trump Common Sense. I heard her interviewed on the radio, and was impressed. She took the Ontario Human Rights Commission to task. It seems that she had been in the changing room at her health club, and a ‘woman’…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 