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IT Insights Blog — recertification

Are You Ready for IT Pro Day?

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IT Pro Day

As the saying goes, "The best things in life aren't free." (Well, unless you're Motown legend Berry Gordy, and you wrote that one song that the Flying Lizards covered in 1979 for the dance mix generation. Then maybe the best things actually are free. That's what the song says, at any rate.) It's also long been observed that, "There's no such thing as a free lunch," and further reflection yields, "You can't get something for nothing." Look, people, stop trying to freeload your way to the Big Brass Ring.

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Certification Helps You Live in the Now

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Glory Days

Every so often, something happens to remind you that you're not the spring chicken that you used to be. Everybody out there raise your hands if the last high school reunion that somebody told you about had a double-digit number assigned to it. Time passes all of us by, and usually this is right about the moment in discussions of this nature that we start to hear the opening chords of Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" spewing from our mental jukebox.

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Celebrity Marriage and Recertification

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Divorce

Eleven years ago, a little action blockbuster called Mr. and Mrs. Smith brought about a collision of Hollywood atoms that produced one of the most spectacular detonations in the annals of celebrity. Sexy superstar Brad Pitt, then married to Friends first femme Jennifer Aniston, abruptly left his wife to form the most blindingly glamorous showbiz supercouple since Bogey and Bacall by pairing up with his sultry Smith leading lady, Angelina Jolie.

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