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Until last year I had spent most of my life living in apartments, condominiums, and warmer climates. Couple that with my travels and it is not so surprising that I had never really shovelled a driveway before. Now that I am married and own...
Theresa and I bought a new car recently. It's Green . To be specific, it is actually a colour called Aloe Green Metallic , which to me sounds like a pretentious way of saying it's green. The car was actually available in one of seven...
So now that I have a day or two to play (and need it up already!), I decided to start installing my Essential Business Server environment today. This is not my first kick at this can (I have installed eight or nine previous iterations in either...
In January last year I was introduced to a new product: Codename Q Server , or what would eventually become Windows Home Server. I joined the beta program, discussed it with other MVPs, but never got around to installing it. Well last week I did, and...
I owe a great debt to Microsoft Canada (Damir!) and Hewlett Packard Canada (Laurie!) who came through to supply me with a server for my last two projects. If you happen to find yourself in the market for a server for a small to mid-sized company...
I have always loved going to the movies. I remember as a child going to some of the old 'Paradise Theatres' in Montreal like the Imperial and the Rialto. Sitting in the grand old theatres - it was rare for there to be even two screens in the theatre...
I was sitting in a cafe minding my own business the other day when I overheard a couple of network administrators discussing the benefits of virtualizing their server room. As this is a topic about which I am quite passionate I was delighted to...
One of the great advantages to MVP Summit is the information that is made available to us; speak to any MVP and chances are they were in no fewer than a dozen sessions over the course of four days, not to mention all of the break-out sessions, the Open...
For years I have been saying that Small Business Server was the best solution for small businesses that did not have huge IT budgets; it allowed them to take advantage of the same enterprise-level tools such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and...
This past Monday I had the opportunity to present what I call a 'Let's Get Excited' presentation to an architect audience at Microsoft Canada. I was asked to showcase several new features of Windows Server 2008, due to launch on February...
You probably know that I have always been a great proponent of donating used computer equipment to charity, and my reasons for that are twofold: There are a lot of people who would consider your three year old computers to be a godsend. Charities abound...