It’s official. On Friday I passed the CompTIA A+ Core 2 exam, thus earning full-fledged CompTIA A+ certification. Two months of rigorous study and retaking multiple practice exams paid off! Onward now to additional certifications such as Network+, Server+ and Security+. Whether its from the Windows command line or Control Panel, I’m troubleshooting a variety […]
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Back on Wednesday, January 29, I passed the CompTIA A+ Core 1 exam. Now on Friday, March 7 I’m scheduled to take A+ Core 2 at 8:15 AM. Since January I’ve been studying, reviewing and re-studying all the concepts and chapters required to pass Core 2. I’m excited about the possibility of attaining A+ Cert,
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Last summer I visited my first US Civil War battlefield–Antietam. Now that the long, very cold winter is almost ending, it is time to hit the road, or rather the rails, to another Civil War site. This time it’s Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. Rather than driving for four and half hours and contributing to the car’s
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That’s it, that’s the name of my burgeoning enterprise—MarcB IT. You may have already read here that I passed the CompTIA A+ Core 1 exam on January 29, 2025. Now I’m scheduled to take Core 2 next Friday on March 7. Have studied a lot already, probably enough. Watching Total Seminars videos as presented by
I’ve never attended a Super Bowl but I’ve probably watched every one since the January, 1979 contest between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys. I was nigh 10 years old when I was irrationally rooting for the Dallas Cowboys, heartbroken by the perfect pass from quarterback Roger Staubach to tight end Jackie Smith in the
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Over the past month, during December 2024, I spent hours and hours and hours, took a break, and then after hours and hours and hours of CompTIA study, I passed the A+ Core I exam in late January on the path to A+ Certification! Thanks to the good people at Total Seminars I utilized a
Winter finally returned to New York just as I remembered it while growing up across the river in New Jersey. Frigid weather and snow, yay! But with conditions like that it was time for a short jaunt to the heart of the Caribbean. It was a welcome change of weather for a brief stint in
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Over one month since my last post already! The end-of-year, holiday season consumes time and effort, at least from writing. But it’s time to return to the canvas of WordPress.com to tell another story. In the interim, I celebrated Thanksgiving with family but more entertaining was watching “A Complete Unknown” one day after Christmas. I
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Nearly one month after the national election and politics, here on the local level, goes on. In New Rochelle, New York, the City Council is on the verge of passing a $285M budget, learning that first-hand at a meeting for the New Rochelle Democrats yesterday. As a new district leader in the community, there’s the
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“You have to pay the cost, to be the boss,” Frederick would say as the “body-in-white” was approaching our workstation along the assembly line at a General Motors factory in New Jersey. At our workstation, I and three other assemblers were tasked with attaching the vehicles’ doors before it rolled towards other workstations in the
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