I took 3 days off and decided to explore the North of Spain, namely Cantabria and Asturias. It was awesome and beautiful. Asturias reminded me of Switzerland, with beautiful alpine style nature, great food, very friendly locals speaking language one can understand :-) (I kinda do understand certain versions of Schwyzzertütsch when spoken slowly - but it is a challenge). Unlike Switzerland, it is not überexpensive. Here are the pictures.

One of the Microsoft old-timer bilionaries, Charles Simonyi, Hungarian born software engineer, famous for his Hungarian naming notation - who would not remember lpstrzDescription or wFlag - is visiting Valencia on his yacht Skat. Those who do not write code (or better said - did not write code 20 years ago) may be familiar with his other contribution - Microsoft Word, something I feel much less positive about than lpstrzDescription.

If one uses Oracle per core licensing strategy in cloud:

Step 1 done. https://www.certmetrics.com/amazon/public/badge.aspx?i=1&t=c&d=2018-06-06&ci=AWS00261816&fbclid=IwAR2K8B4FyKWVstBZXCXn5GhYX9iRyB4U2q8l2ROrM_16m-rlclioalnp0O4 And now dilemma: go deeper into AWS or look around what Google and Azure have to offer ? So many clouds, so little time …