Author: Malcolm Peralty
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Surviving Covid
I was terrified of getting Covid because I’ve had pneumonia seven times, and bronchitis more than a dozen times. Anything respiratory is scary to me, especially something killing millions of people around the world. So when I saw that the rapid test was positive, my heart sank. It was Thursday…
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You Don’t Host Your Site Yourself
So a comment that keeps coming up all the time is that people should host their blog or website themselves because otherwise they could be shut down by some company, but I really don’t like when people say you should “host it yourself”! Here’s the thing, if your site is…
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CBC All in a Day: Housing in Kingston Panelist
Recently, I got to be a panelist on a quick segment of All in a Day with Alan Neal for CBC Ottawa where I was asked to talk about housing in Kingston. I was the lucky panelist out of the three invitees. I spend a fair bit of time on…
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Ioniq 5 Trips
We often make trips of four to eight hours of driving over the course of a day, so with a fully electric vehicle will we constantly be concerned about range? Will we be sitting at chargers for hours on end every day draining our phone batteries wishing we had a…
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Vehicle Supply Chain Issues
I noticed that Hyundai was selling out of it’s 2022 vehicle models for hybrid and electric vehicles so my wife and I decided to reach out to our local dealership to see about reserving a Hyundai Ioniq 5, but it looks like we won’t be able to get one. Check…
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BetterHelp – Online Therapy
I have been using BetterHelp (affiliate link) for a couple months this time and have found it to be very helpful, but like most things, it really depends on a few key factors: how much effort I put in and picking the right person to help me. I had tried…
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Crypto Bot Trading: Part 2
If you haven’t seen part 1, please check out that first. Note, I am not a financial expert, these are just all my opinions, please do your own research. Signals One of the things you’ll see when setting up a bot is the Deal Start Condition. This is the signal…
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Crypto Bot Trading: Part 1
Using the crypto market to make money is just like playing in the stock market but the volatility is higher, the risks are greater and the whole thing is currently fairly unregulated. The good news is that instead of waiting a month for a stock or ETF to move one…
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Electric SUV Maybe?
So it’s been about half a year since I last wrote about the next vehicle we might get in a post called SUV Maybe? and I wanted to revisit the topic now that we’ve finally paid off our car! That’s right, I’m living the no car loans life right now,…
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Federal Election: Does Anyone Deserve Your Vote?
We are currently in the midst of likely the shortest election campaign timeline the Federal government can run, and I am hearing the odd soundbite that makes me perk my ears up, but is there really anything to get excited about? Using BNN Bloomberg’s write-up about where each party stands…
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Hasbro Helping Make Racist Babies?
Recently on Fox News – “Hasbro claims babies as young as three months old can show racial preferences… Three, four and five years old can show pro-white biases.” This blog post is going to deal with the topic of race and might be triggering to some people. Please read at…
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Low Cost Canadian Cell Phone Plans are Garbage
The requirements the CRTC has given the cell phone service providers to create low cost plans look like something written up from 2012, with features and prices that just don’t make sense for modern times. It looks like the big-three will continue to make huge amounts of money, even off…
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