IT Insights Blog — sale

There are a lot of different ways that you could spend your money right now. Assuming, of course, that there's anything left over after you just spent half of what you earn in a month to stock up on beef jerky and energy drinks so that you can spend the next four days in a sleeping bag outside the neighborhood movie theater waiting for the first screening of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Oh, yeah, bring it on!

What goes together better than chocolate and peanut butter? Psych! It's a trick question. Nothing goes together better than chocolate and peanut butter, son. Even peanut butter and apples, or peanut butter and bread with jam (or jelly) on it, or Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T in a boxing ring, or cheese and pepperoni on a pizza crust, or maple-glazed donuts and bacon bits — nope. None of that goes together better than peanut butter and chocolate.

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.

You can't get money for nothing — unless you're the guys who sing that one song from the '80s or '90s or whenever it was — and money usually gets you more than, well, nothing. It's always a good idea, however, to try to get the most that your money can purchase. And, as we all know, the price of most things that you can buy with money is more of a suggestion (ever heard the acronym MSRP, or "manufacturer's suggested retail price"?) than a hard-and-fast rule.

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.