The World According to Mitch

I get a lot of questions about my lifestyle. I spend most of my time traveling, and people seem to think that it is glamourous. I suppose I did too, at the beginning. That wears off after a while, and doubly so when you have a comfortable home. So a question was asked recently in a newsgroup: How do...

For those of you who have not been following the saga, I moved from Montreal to Toronto recently. With the exception of four years in the middle somewhere I had lived my entire life in Montreal, and as I was quite happy there it will come as a bit of a shock to those who do not know me that the final...

It is a bitter-sweet day. In 2004 I bought a used Dell PowerEdge 4300 server... but I couldn't use it until 2005 when my wife left, because as powerful as it is, it is also big and loud. Since then it has been my main server, and as reliable as Old Faithful. There has not been a single hardware failure...

So it’s now official: I am moving to the Greater Toronto Area. Over the past few years so many pieces of my life and identity have been intertwined with my living in Montreal, most notably my leadership and affiliation with the Montreal IT Professional Community. I grew up here, and have for most of...

I spent the week in Iselin, New Jersey. If you are like I once was and do not know where that is, it is just outside Newark, and a quick train ride into New York City. Though the hotel was lousy (It was actually in Woodbridge and not Iselin) the rest of the trip was good. The class I taught was a great...