It’s a PASS! This week I successfully renewed my Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification. Yay for me, because this one is not easy. This professional certification requires a real closed-book test either at a designated place or at home, proctored (being watched over camera and screen monitoring). No asking GPT in the extra monitor, […]

Every now and then, we come across a book that resonates deeply, arriving at just the right time. For me, that book in 2024 was Quit by Annie Duke. Published in 2022, I only wish I had read it sooner. The full title is Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. As the […]

Going to Toronto has become almost a monthly thing. I typically go by train because the two times I’ve gone by plane I’ve been delayed by several hours. The last time I was there I was delayed by 7 hours. The silver lining, a beautiful view of Toronto from the plane. I was tired, enjoying […]

It’s been a year since we’ve been back from Japan. While in Japan we would hear stories about people frustrated or unhappy with their mobile plans. I guess now it is our time. When I signed up with FIDO I was supposed to get a promotion that would wave our signup fee, $50. They said […]

Last week I went to one of the biggest conferences I have ever been Collision Conference 2022 – more than 35,000 attendees. The venue was huge. Everyone was excited to get together in what for many of us was the first “post-covid” event. Of course, no one was wearing masks… not the speakers, not the […]

It must be said again, reporting the strength of an earthquake with the Richter Scale is useless and confusing. Seriously folks, last night a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit Tokyo. You might have seen it in the news. 7.4? The first thing to do after seeing that number is to research where it was felt, if […]