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Back in the 1880s and 1890s, the era, in the United States, of the first transcontinental railroads, poor workers used to follow rail lines from place to place in search of a job, a handout, or something better than whatever they'd left behind. A culture gradually grew up around these disadvantaged wanderers that persists to this day. Something about so-called "hobos" fires the imagination, and almost everyone is at least passingly familiar with bits and pieces of hobo lore.

There's a long tradition in the annals of humanity of resolving to improve oneself in various ways at the start of each year. Many centuries ago, the inhabitants of Babylon would make a religious vow at the start of each year to return borrowed objects and pay debts. In ancient Rome, many citizens of the empire would begin the first month of the year by making promises to Janus, the god of (among several other things) beginnings.

It's a brand new year. A blank slate. A fresh canvas. A new leaf. What do the next 12 months have in store? That's what makes this time of year so exciting and invigorating. There's a great big TBD out there, and it's up to each of us what gets determined over the coming weeks and months. What is the looming "to be determined" element in your life? There's really only one person who can make that decision — and then make it stick.

Black is the absence of visible light; an achromatic color; a symbolic representation of evil, or mourning, or authority (think religious or judicial robes); a philophical boundary; the most common hue of the printed word; and even a longstanding racial and ethnic identifier. That's a lot of responsibility for a single word to shoulder. And somehow or other, in recent years, black has also come to represent huge savings.

The IT Insights blog is taking the day off, in honor of Presidents Day. We will be back on Wednesday, Feb. 22. We do have a "Hail to the chief!" kind of of holiday salute, however, to all of our friends and associates in IT certification. Check out this incredible deal: In honor of "Honest Abe" — whose 208th birthday was two days before Valentines Day — and all of his presidential brethren, you can get the first month of any our top-caliber certification and training courses for just $5.