Halloween is over, except for the candy you stole from your kids and hid, so start the clock to 2022. Pedal to the metal, or maybe up your clock speed, and go directly to the end of the year. Except for Thanksgiving (in the U.S. at least). And for Christmas. And New Year’s Eve and Day.

“May you live in interesting times,” the famous Chinese curse, seems painfully appropriate now. Apple’s been all over the news with new hardware and software, just as Microsoft Windows finally crawls from Win10 to Win11.

The Tokyo 2020+1 Olympics are in full swing, and with the 2020 tag, you know things are weird. The USA men’s basketball team, stocked with stars like Kevin Durant and Damian Lillard, snapped a 25-game Olympic winning streak by losing to France, 83-76.

Summer starts next week, but the heat arrived early, especially on the Pacific side of the country.

Summer hasn’t officially started, but it’s getting hotter, especially in the Northeast. Need shade? On June 10th, the moon will block the sun in a rare “Ring of Fire” solar eclipse.

Hooray! The longest episode of cargo ship constipation has ended! The “Ever Given” clogged up the Suez Canal worse than a steady diet of chunky cheeses, gummy white bread, and super glue.

Those of us in the tech biz often worry about protocols, but rarely, if ever, do royal protocols become part of our problem.

Seems like the weather demands yet more attention. At the time of this writing on February 15, Dallas is six degrees colder than Anchorage, Alaska. Houston is only one degree warmer than the Alaskan city 4,132 miles to the northwest. New York City is 23 degrees warmer than Dallas.

IoTPlaybook Insight: Last month, Microsoft's Channel 9 hosted a virtual event, and promised, "we will cover topics ranging from IoT device connectivity, IoT data communication strategies, use of artificial intelligence at the edge, data processing considerations for IoT data, and

February brings snowfall measured in feet to the Northeast, as Winter Storm Orlena dumps wet, clumpy snow globs on the area until early Wednesday morning. Thursday the sun reappears, followed by rain on Friday.