by ezs | Sep 29, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – truly incredible the speed that “Trump has COVID” to “Trump is in Walter Reed” progressed. More of the WH and Senate are positive. Record COVID case increases across the midwest and west US.
Here in Washington State, cases are picking up again. Visuals from the Seattle Times.
Friday – Trump has COVID, as have many in the WH. Masks and distancing work.
Thursday – fare collection starts back up on public transport in Seattle/King County after six months.
Wednesday – Italian Senate closes as multiple senators test positive. Most of Europe in the grip of rising cases.
Tuesday – AFP reports “60M Indians with COVID”
Monday – Week 30. 1M deaths globally from COVID-19. Over 200K in the US. Refresh of the milestones since January from the BBC. BBC daily summaries removed.
by ezs | Sep 24, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Another re-certification.
Back in 2007 I earned the ITIL v2 Manager exam – two weeks of in-classroom learning and two long, handwritten exams!
I took the v2 – v3 Manager Bridge in Brisbane back in the summer (winter!) of 2008
This week I studied for and just passed the ITIL v4 Managing Professional transition.
No in-person training this time because of COVID – so online training and four long books to read.
by ezs | Sep 21, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – a quarter of the UK under new lockdowns. R >1 and the numbers are really alarming again. Continued protests globally about masks and restrictions.
Usual data from The Seattle Times. Small uptick in cases last week.
Friday – “1 in 500 in UK has Covid”
Thursday – coronavirus continues to mutate, become more transmissible. France, Spain, Portugal – record rise. 5% increases since last week across TX and much of mid-west US. Increasingly become a rural virus.
Wednesday – Second wave continues to sweep Europe. UK political fallout around unclear advice.
Tuesday – Flu vaccine awareness needed in the US. Looks like the BBC daily summary is back.
Monday – UK told to prepare for “50,000 new cases per day”, Boots pausing flu shots for under 65s. US around 200k deaths. WA State cases are dropping. Bleach being sold on Amazon again as cure for Covid.
by ezs | Sep 15, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – UK heading back to country wide lockdown. WA State rate of positive tests is dropping from around 5.5% to around 3.1% – which is a good sign. Not enough test capacity in the UK.
Friday – Pandemic means less European election monitors for US vote. Canadian border restrictions in place until end of October.
Thursday – Continued confusion around CDC advice and guidance.
Wednesday – many “back to school” virus outbreaks. No widespread vaccine for a year.
Tuesday – more restrictions in UK to break transmission chains. This is back to “the hammer and the dance”
Monday – another new week of school at home. Cases on the rise everywhere. UK testing chaos. Removing the BBC from the daily updates next week.
PC rebuild – so late getting this started.
by ezs | Sep 7, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – UK vaccine trials resume. Fall/autumn flu combined with Covid will be really devastating. Brazil deaths >132k.
Weekend numbers from The Seattle Times:
Friday – Fauci says “vaccine in late 2021”. UK continuing towards huge uptick in cases. R>1 in many cities.
Thursday – Record cases in Europe. Same story repeating in UK, France, Spain, Portugal.. long list. Trump “misled public” about severity of Covid.
Wednesday – US numbers declined, plateaued, now rising again.
Tuesday – England heading rapidly towards a second nationwide lockdown. Week 2 of “back to school, online and at home”.
Monday – Labor Day – and the end of a hot extended weekend. Generally in western WA I see masks being worn, there are plenty of folk who will not. The BBC live coverage is back.
by ezs | Sep 6, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Way back in 2015 I passed the 70-534 beta exam “Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions”. As a beta exam, taken internally, there were seemingly hundreds of questions.
Since then, Microsoft changed their certification program, moving to role-based certification (and as an aside moving all certifications to be around cloud solutions).
Time to re-certify.
First up – review the certification path. The Azure Training paths are pretty well called out.
Azure Fundamentals – AZ-900. As a personal stretch I decided to take this exam, not just as a standalone piece of certification, but to prepare for leading a couple of cohorts of colleagues at work through a “minimooc” team led set of training. The exam was relatively simple – but using the experience was helpful in mentoring others across the team to be prepared for and pass this exam. My personal goal is to support some re-skilling and re-certification of the majority of the Infrastructure Services team by year end. The Microsoft Learn site gives much of the content for the exam – but not quite everything.
Next up Azure Solutions Architect. Two exams (AZ-300 and AZ-301, or the newer AZ-303 and AZ-304). I sat both pairs; I learned a heck of a lot about Cosmos DB that I didn’t know a month ago.
Passed and happy for another two years.
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