Five for Friday – February 5, 2021

The light at the end of the tunnel is tiny…but it’s there. Here’s some stuff to share this week.

  • President Biden has promised 100M vaccinations in 100 days. The math isn’t hard to see that the end is still a long way off. I’ve been checking in on this vaccination tracker to see just how far we’ve come – and how far we have to go.
  • I’m currently reading Hidden in Plain Sight – which is turning out to be one of the most enlightening and educating books I’ve ever read.
  • In case you missed it, I moved the modern testing site off of the old wordpress site hosted here to its own …also wordpress site.
  • Deserted Island Devops (the conference hosted inside Animal Crossing) is accepting submissions
  • After almost 20 years of riding a Ducati, I upgraded to a 2020 Harley Davidson Forty Eight. Here’s a picture of mine.

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