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November 2008 - Posts

MVP Profile – Misha Hanin
I met Misha a few years ago while I was an MVP still living in Winnipeg and Misha was visiting Winnipeg as planned his move to Canada.  We’d share postings between thelazyadmin.com and his site admininfo.ca and I was glad to hear he got his MVP award! Read More...
TechDays in Ottawa - the sun has set
This was the first time we had a shorter version of the TechDays experience and it had it's trial in Ottawa earlier today. For all intents and purposes - it was a great success from the in person feed back I got from hosting the breakfast and lunchtime Read More...
Sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/HDD2
As you may have read I recently jumped on the netbook bandwagon and have been playing about with the Asus Eee PC 901 for a while now. For the past few weeks I’ve been using it as I travel for TechDays as an email and web surfing machine but decided I Read More...
MITPro meeting tonight. A shift in UG event format
Hello folks, I am currently sitting in the train on my way to Montréal where tonight I will participate in a User Group meeting for MITPro (Montreal IT Professionals Community). For this user group it marks a new way of conducting their meeting, a new Read More...
Update - SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition from Heroes Happen Here Launch
Over the last couple of weeks I received a number of emails from individuals who attended the Heroes Happen Here (HHH) Launch events in the spring of 2008.  These emails all asked the same question:  I got my HHH kit and went online to request Read More...
Finding Opportunities in a Recession Economy, Part 3
Paul Laberge is back with the final instalment of this series. Please shoot us an email via the link in the top left of the page and let us know what you think of this information and share experiences and ideas you have to survive the tough times. Rodney Read More...
IT Guy / IT Gal Series - what's the worst task you had to do?
Do you work in a small IT shop or are you the only IT resource that your company has? Are you the "go to" guy/gal for anything to do with technology? Do you (or others) consider yourself a "jack of all trades"? Do you work in a small Read More...
Your satisfaction matters...and it’s clear that we need to do better!
Hi Everyone, In the sprit of being transparent and building connections, I thought I would share my teams mandate and goals with you.  My team is responsible for one key goal in Canada and that is to build your trust and support you in a manner in Read More...
Finding Opportunities in a Recession Economy, Part 2
This is part 2 of a 3 part series written by our collegue Paul Laberge on surving tough economical times. -------------------------- Without a doubt, most of us are experiencing the most serious economic recession in our lifetimes. There's an awful lot Read More...
Finding Opportunities in a Recession Economy, Part 1
Paul Laberge, aka The Burger, is a member of our team that focuses on web development agencies and wrote a series of posts on surviving the turmoil in the current economy. I asked him if I could post it here as it is some great information and added a Read More...
TechDays Montreal is a Wrap.....but SQLTeach is only a few weeks away
After a weekend recovering from TechDays Montreal, most of the teams gets a couple of weeks rest before the Ottawa stop of TechDays on November 27, and then on to Winnipeg and Calgary, and finally Vancouver in January.  If you have not yet registered Read More...
TechDays à Montréal
Bonjour Montréal ! C'est Philippe Reil, Directeur des communications stratégiques, marchés francophones. L’équipe de Microsoft est en ville cette semaine pour la conférence TechDays, tenue au Palais des Congrès. C’est Read More...
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