The World According to Mitch

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 SharePoint Server without having to purchase several...

I suppose I don't do a very good job of advertising the fact that I am the Chief Training Officer for Certguard.com, an organization dedicated to helping IT Pros get certified, and to boosting the credibility of those certifications by actively hunting down cheaters and especially the organizations...

The past two years I have failed to send out my regular Holiday Update Letter to friends and family.  The reasons are irrelevant, but yesterday and today I decided to revive that tradition, and sent it out.  If you did not get it then please understand that I hand-select the recipients from...

I just lost a friend. That seems a very dramatic way to start a blog article, but there it is. Nobody died, and to the best of my knowledge in the past two days I have neither fought with nor grown apart from anyone I know... and yet there it is, I lost a friend. I have never been one to count friends...

I cannot be sure when I first started receiving spam in my Inbox, but in all likelihood it was around the time I got my first Internet e-mail account, circa April, 1995.  It was a minor nuisance then, and before long it became a major pain.  Fortunately as spam developed so did anti-spam technology...