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 […]