It’s time to wrap up the words of this year. As I do every year at the end of the year, I’m looking back at what has happened to me and what I have encountered over the past year, and I’m listing them up in a few short words.
The words of 2023 are flight simulation, fitness, TOEIC, and voice recognition.
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The words of this year are: web3, Ford Focus, gout, and pilotage.
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It is time for me to look back at what I experienced this year and summarize it in some words, as I do it every year-end. This year, COVID-19 has affected a great deal to the lifestyle of people all over the world, including myself. I have been forced to stay home and work from home for most days of this year.
Despite such restricted situations, I encountered some new things. The words of this year are Synapusyu, the handgun, and computer programming.
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COVID-19 is dreadfully spreading throughout the world, hospitalizing more than 3,100,000 people and taking the lives of more than 200,000 patients as of April 29, according to Johns Hopkins University. It is no exception here in Tokyo.
The virus is forcing all people in the world to change their lifestyles. Many have been grounded for months. Essential workers, such as doctors, healthcare workers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, supermarket clerks, garbage collectors, delivery service personnel, and staff involved in public transportation, work outside facing the fear of infection.
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Estonia, one of the Baltic countries that became independent of the Soviet Union along with Latvia and Lithuania in the early 1990s, is an IT-conscious country with a significant number of IT-related startups, including Skype. The Estonian government is doing its best to make a “digital country” by inviting IT engineers to some offshore development sites in Europe’s IT market.
The government issues Estonian citizens an ID card, similar to a Social Security Card in the United States, which enables holders to offer one-stop services, including taxation, online banking, issuing medical prescriptions, and more. In addition to offering an ID card for real residents, it introduced the e-Residency scheme, which is available not only to residents of Estonia but also to people who don’t live in Estonia. In this scheme, an “e-Residency Card” is issued to the “e-Residents” of Estonia, and similar services to those for real residents are offered “electronically” with the card via their computers.
Application for an e-Residency Card is easy. First, visit the application page on the e-Estonia website at https://apply.e-estonia.com/. And then you can apply for the card by filling in the required information on the website and paying €50.99 online with a credit card. You can have the card sent to any Estonian Embassy outside Estonia, so you can pick it up at the nearest Embassy without flying to Estonia. About one month after submitting the online application, the card will be ready, and you will receive an email notification.
(more…)I’ve got a certificate that I’ve passed the ITILv3 Foundation exam, which I took last December!
