The World According to Mitch

Over the last few weeks I have had plenty of opportunity to play with a number of Windows Phone 7 devices, and I am loving it!  Windows Phone 7 is as friendly and simple as any other Phone OS I have come across, and much moreso than the myriad Mobile 6, 6.1, and 6.5 devices…

Now here’s a great feature!  I have grumbled in the past that encrypting a drive with BitLocker is a slow process, and although I do it so rarely, I was reminded yesterday that decrypting is equally time-consuming.  I have a 500GB external drive that I need to decrypt because it is being repurposed, and because…

It is the morning of September 9th, 2010.  For the last week I have been tracking a package’s progress on UPS.com – they make a big deal that you can do that.  So when Intel sent me an e-mail that my replacement motherboard had been shipped, I was glad that I could get on-line and…

My buddy Tim Barrett is not only a prolific writer, a world-class SBS consultant, and most recently a cartoonist.  Today he published a cartoon on his site (www.nogeekleftbehind.com) that made me laugh… very apropos to the times.  Check it out!  http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com/2010/09/08/have-u-rebooted-yet-029-cloud-stampede/ Remember to vote early and vote often 🙂

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MDG NOTE: After this note (in bold & blue and somewhat long-winded) there is nothing within this post that I wrote, but I agree with it and as a virtualization expert find it interesting, and mandatory reading for virtualization administrators and IT Pros considering virtualization as a solution.  As I have stated a thousand times,…

The story of the day yesterday was that Steven Slater, a flight attendant with JetBlue, wigged out on the tail-end of a flight from Pittsburgh to New York’s JFK.  He said that he’d had it, cursed at passengers and quit over the PA system before grabbing a beer, deploying the emergency chute, and sliding away…

For the sake of full disclosure, I was Technical Reviewer for O’Reilly’s newest book on Office 2010 (Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner & Matthew MacDonald).  That being said, it has quickly become my go-to ‘bible’ for all things Office. For years I have told my students, clients, and family that a computer…

Have you downloaded the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP Beta yet? The Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as…

“The minute you feel the air conditioning aboard the ship your vacation begins, and there will be absolutely no stress or aggravation for four days.  The entire staff aboard the cruise ship is there to make sure you enjoy yourself!”  Our (absolutely fabulous!) travel agent promised.  It was easy to believe, because it was a…

Several years ago a friend of mine told me about a seminar that he attended where the presenter – the inventor of the DayTimer, if memory serves, put all of our different data collection methods in perspective; he had the audience count the places where they collected information, and came up with, among others: Agenda…

In March, 2004 I wrote and posted this article to my website.  I was reminded of it this evening when I opened an e-mail from someone warning me of the latest and greatest virus.  Some of the wording had not even changed in six years!  My article is a bit dated, but worth the read.…

I had never been to Halifax (or anywhere in Nova Scotia) before, so I was not upset that a scheduling blunder gave me a free day to tour around.  My arrival coincided with the arrival of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who began her 22nd Canadian visit here.  It also came during the celebrations of…

Nearly seven weeks ago Master Dimitrios Beis took me aside and asked if I wanted to prepare to test for my Black Belt in June.  Our schools, Grand Master Kim’s Oriental Martial Arts College of Canada, tests (for Black Belt) twice a year, in June and then December.  Beyond the affect that nearly seven weeks…

Many of you know that I am currently preparing for my Black Belt test in Tae Kwon Do (June 12!).  Aside from writing a lot about it (not on the blog) I am also doing a lot of reading and research, and accidentally came across Steve Conway’s site.  Steve is an overweight practitioner of Tae…