Monthly Archives: December 2007

Canadian Ski Marathon

Here I am skiing near the beginning of doing the Silver Courier du Bois. I look a little tired here, but I’m pretty sure this is the near the first or second feeding station on the first day, so I’m … Continue reading

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Lorne Scots SRTP 1979

In the summer of 1979, I did the Summer Recruit Training Program with my unit of the Canadian Forces Reserve, the Lorne Scots, Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment. Back then we called it “the militia”, but living in the US … Continue reading

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Road Ski Race

(This is first of a new series: my mom sent me a bunch of my old pictures for Christmas and I’m in the process of scanning them and uploading them.) In 1980, I was doing most of my training on … Continue reading

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Weird one

A week or two ago, somebody from customer support came to me because certain customer sites were having some weird problems – some sites weren’t seeing new content even though it had been delivered and couldn’t update their schedules. She … Continue reading

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Well, it only took 7 freaking hours and three people

…but I finally have a VMPlayer image that has Lotus Notes installed and reading my mail instead of somebody else’s Visio installed and working Access to files on the host box (using SMB mounts instead of Shared Folders) Access to … Continue reading

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