Tag: Montreal
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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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Transitions & Changes
I received an e-mail this week from the Montreal IT Professionals Community (MITPro) inviting me to the 2014 Annual General Meeting. I remembered a day nine years ago in January, 2005. Later in the day I would be heading to the first meeting of the group who had been brought together to build a user…
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Welcome to Cote St. Luc, Montreal
I came to Montreal to visit my father this week. I arrived Tuesday evening and picked my father up at his apartment in the Cote Saint Luc section of town. After dinner we drove around looking for a place to park. I found two spots that looked good, but my father found the signs (well…
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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…
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Quebec Students Need to Learn…
The protesters were out in full force Tuesday evening as my friend Peter and I walked through the Plateau Mont Royal to the restaurant. When the radio announcer talked about the Pots and Pans brigade I thought he was being funny, but indeed the student protesters at the corner of Villeneuve and de l’Esplanade were…
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Sixteen Days Out – a summary
Yesterday was a dichoto-day. If I made that word up, it is what it sounds like – a day that was a mix of good and bad. I want to clarify at the outset that this had nothing to do with work, which was fine (I am teaching a class at TekSource Corporate Learning this…
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Does Quebec Have a Future in Canada? Whose Call is it?
Last week the National Post (one of two national newspapers in Canada that are actually quite focused on Ontario) published a survey asking Canadians to respond to the question of whether Quebec actually deserved to remain in Canada. “Does Quebec have a future in Canada?” Of course, if you have lived in Canada or North…
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Microsoft Renews the Certification Plan
I remember the day that I earned my first senior certification, the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Microsoft Windows 2000. It was a proud day for me, May 27, 2005. I would later earn my MCSA on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (June 30, 2006), and I was thrilled beyond belief. Interestingly, although my original…
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