Big changes

So, this is the last day of 2020, and what a year it has been. The COVID-19 global pandemic has certainly been extremely disruptive to most people's daily lives. Many of us found ourselves having to set up semi-permanent home office spaces for teleworking, and the companies that didn't have proper remote work infrastructures found themselves facing significant difficulties.

And that's not even mentioning industries such as restaurants, travel, and hospitality where entire companies have found themselves in dire straights and people have lost their jobs in droves.

Through all of this, I found a new and fascinating job running the IT department at my alma mater, so overall 2020 has been a good and positive year.

From a technical point of view, we're just about to leave our current internet (and TV) provider to adopt ebox. We'll be moving up to a 400 Mbps connection, which is great. Hard to believe that our first permanent internet connection in 1995 was a 0.014 Mbps modem link (a 14.4 kbps modem connection) to Interlinx that connected our little Unix machine to the Internet for real for the first time.

EBox seems like a solid outfit. I'll let you know more in 2021 once I've completed the connection and activated the TV and Internet services.

Cheers to all of you, and here's hoping that 2021 is less quirky than 2020!

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