Today we will be discussing the Moderna version of the COVID-19 vaccine, including the very good preliminary results from its Phase 3 trial.

Link:

COVID Vaccine Excitement Builds as Moderna Reports Positive Result

Today, I'll be talking about our preliminary set of plans for Christmas, and the complexities of figuring out what to do with all that.

Today's episode, we'll be examining the requirement for extremely cold temperatures for the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, and how making seemingly small assumptions early on in a project can really fundamentally change things later on.

Today I'll be sharing some of my first impressions of the iPhone 12 mini, my favourite new phone since the iPhone SE (original) due to its being the *perfect* size (for me).

Links (to ergonomic phone holders I've used):

• Phone Loops
• PopSockets

Today I'll be discussing the ramifications of a timeline where we get a useful COVID vaccine from Pfizer in the spring, and the hope that things in that timeline quickly go back to something resembling normalcy.

Today I'll be talking about the Google announcement yesterday about starting to charge users for uploading to Google Photos and Google Drive. I'll discuss the consequences of the decision and offer some ideas for alternative revenue streams.

In this episode I'll be talking about the Apple Event yesterday, featuring the release of three new Apple computers with the new M1 chip in them. I'm very curious to see how this future plays out over the next couple of years.

Yesterday, we had a new employee join our team at NSERC. I'll talk a little today about the process of remote onboarding and since this is the first time I've had a direct report, it's a whole new thing for me.

Today, we're leaving politics behind, and talking about the ridiculous cost for the simple service that is Visual Voicemail.

Yesterday, Decision Desk HQ called Pennsylvania for Joe Biden, and along with it, the presidential election. The other networks followed suit, and today I talk about my feelings in the half-a-day or so since. Feels good man.