IT Insights Blog — Savings

Don't look now, but NASA just landed a spacecraft on Mars. Somehow, news of the landing broke Monday and Tuesday with (more or less) zero fanfare. Which is odd, considering that we just completed a successful process that involves flinging a spacecraft way up into the exosphere, piloting it across hundreds of millions of miles of deep space, and safely getting it down to surface, intact ...

This holiday season, buy someone you love the gift that truly keeps on giving: full access to TestOut Continuing Education's entire IT training library! Does your loved one need an IT certification? How about 15 certifications?! It's an all-you-can-IT buffet! Or, if you need to do some IT learning of your own, treat yourself! There will still be plenty of money left over in your holiday gift-giving budget to purchase nice gifts for everyone else.

You can't have a "palooza" of something unless you're willing to be somewhat heedless and unrestrained. Nobody goes to a palooza expecting an atmosphere of polite conversation, proper conduct, and buttoned down formality. This is probably why most paloozas don't involve tea and crumpets, or tweedy recitations of select passages from The Collected Works of Lady ...

The U.S. observance of Labor Day had its first formal stirrings in 1887, when Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day a darn tootin', sure-as-shootin' public holiday. They're nothing if not progressive in Oregon, which is also where the first one-way streets in a U.S. city were laid out, as well as being the (highly generalized) location of the first facility to successfully breed harbor seals in captivity.

The IT Insights blog is taking the day off, in honor of the U.S. observance of Memorial Day. We will be back on Wednesday, May 30. Until then ...