Tag: Canada
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Canadian Politics…
A month ago I sat down with my Member of Parliament, the Honourable Karina Gould. Ms. Gould is a member of the Liberal Party, and is a very nice young lady who despite knowing I did not vote for her was happy to meet with me and listen to my issues. I should mention that…
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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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Thanks for your support!
Over the past few days I have received an incredible number of you asking what happened, if I am okay, and if I will be alright. I can assure you I am. Let me explain. A great many of you have known me as a Microsoft contractor. I have been for quite some time, first…
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AC03: Flying with Phaedra!
As I walked down the gangplank toward my ‘home in the air’ for the next eleven hours I heard even before I could see her the head Flight Attendant on Air Canada flight 003 from Vancouver to Tokyo. She was on the PA system almost cheerleading her staff, and as I appeared she put on…
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SQ11: The Flight of a lifetime!
If I have been delinquent in my blogging over the past few weeks I apologize – I have been preoccupied with work. Overloaded may be a more accurate term, but that is no reason to neglect you, and I apologize for it. In my defense, I have a great article that was ‘in the can’…
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Warning!
Wednesday morning I was sitting at my desk when a pop-up appeared on my screen. It was actually an Internet Explorer window, and although it was written entirely in Japanese, I suspected immediately that it was a scam, a fraud, malware, or something. Why? It had a very old Microsoft logo on it (from the…
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Neither a Snob Nor an Elitist…
In response to a series of articles I wrote recently about my laptop bags (What IS your laptop bag) and about my luggage (The Price of Quality) I was recently called an elitist snob. “Mitch, it is fine that you want to spend hundreds of dollars on your laptop bags, but in all fairness you…
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Sick…
Being sick sucks. I discovered earlier this week though that it can suck a lot less… if only there were ways of doing things more efficiently. I had been coughing and sneezing for a week, but Monday afternoon, realizing that I was short of breath after a single flight of stairs, I decided I needed…
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MCT Regional Lead
It was a great honour to be selected as the MCT Regional Lead for Canada for the inaugural year of that program (See article). I like to say that the MCT Regional Lead program spent the first year figuring out what it was going to be. I was thrilled to be a part of that.…
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A Stranger in a Strange Land…
Have you ever walked through a grocery store and not known what anything was? I had that experience this evening. Although there are pictures on a lot of things, the only items (aside from fresh fruits and vegetables) that I could clearly identify were Frosted Flakes, Coke Zero, and Cote de Rhone. It might have…
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Big in Japan…
There has been a rumour floating around that I was not happy at Microsoft Canada. Whoever started that rumour was not me, and it could not have been further from the truth. I have loved working with the DPE Team, I have loved almost everything about the past year. With that being said, over the…
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Same Scam, Different Source
Earlier this year I wrote an article for Oakville.com earlier this year on an on-line scam (Another Scam). I remembered it a few minutes ago when I got the same phishing e-mail from an aunt in California, who unfortunately got mugged on an unannounced surprise trip to Manila. Of course, my aunt is not in…
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What Does Being an MVP Mean to ME?
This month I will be speaking at the SMB Nation Fall Conference. My main presentation will be on what IT will look like for small- and mid-sized businesses in what I call the ‘Post-SBS Era.’ I will be discussing Private Cloud, System Center, Virtualization, Office 365, Azure, and Windows Intune. I have also been asked…
The World According to Mitch 