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So British actor Patrick Stewart — who's either best known for being Captain Picard or Professor X, depending on how old you are — disclosed some Legitimately Big News while attending a Star Trek convention earlier this week. Who knew that Patrick Stewart still goes to Star Trek conventions, by the way? Isn't he legitimately the only former cast member who's cool enough to not have to put up with that nonsense?

The numbers are in and moviegoers have spoken. For the second weekend in a row, the No. 1 moving playing at U.S. theaters was Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the long-running series that features Tom Cruise as superspy Ethan Hunt. Ethan Hunt does all kinds of crazy things in Fallout, and since Tom Cruise like to do his own stunts, that means that Cruise himself did a lot of those crazy things, too.

One of the most rewarding things about working in information technology certification is observing the effects of the well-worn truism that knowledge is power. Power to change your circumstances. Power to rise above whatever challenging circumstances you may find yourself in. Power to discover, or simply create, a path to a better life. Knowledge is power, and certification helps you increase your stockpile of knowledge.

If you look up the word "muchness" in any dictionary, the definition given will probably be something along these lines: "greatness, as in quantity, measure, or degree." (Thanks, Dictionary.com!) You also may see the word described as being "Archaic," and or given some other notation to signify that it doesn't get a whole lot of use in 2018. That seems like a shame. Don't we all need to get a little more muchness out of life?

There's an informal rule of thumb in the microchip realm of information technology known as Moore's Law. First proposed by tech trailblazer Gordon Moore, cofounder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, Moore's Law initially suggested, in 1965, that the advance of human knowledge would double the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit every year. In 1975, Moore revised his standard to every two years.