Author: Malcolm Peralty
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Zenhabits Life Lessons
This is a great read: 38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years Here’s one of the thirty-eight from the list: 2. Possessions are worse than worthless — they’re harmful. They add no value to your life, and cost you everything. Not just the money required to buy them, but…
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Lack of Camera Equipment and Skill
So today I decided to go to the 30th Annual Multicultural Community Festival in Brockville. I bought all of my camera equipment in hopes of taking some nice pictures, and after three hours, and three hundred pictures, I have to admit, I’m super frustrated. Not having the right camera equipment…
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I Hate Asides on Bueno
This theme is Bueno, and I hate how it styles asides. WordPress has been slowly fixing other themes, but not this one, and that makes me sad. I could re-style it myself, but it would take too long because of how they currently have the CSS.
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Being Sick While Alone Sucks
I’m a big baby when I’m sick, and I like to be taken care of… I don’t even have anyone to sing me “soft kitty”. Today, I’m under the weather. I blame whomever was sick during Easter. So today, I stayed home and slept most of the day. I answered…
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Future Tech: Right Again
Two years ago on a science fiction blog I was running, I wrote a post entitled Future Idea: Computer Settings That Follow You, and today, I feel vindicated as a screenshot from the next version of Windows showed up, and it includes the essence of my idea in it. The…
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The Bloc Québécois Should Be Disolved
I believe, hopefully like many Canadians, that the Bloc Québécois is a party that shouldn’t exist, and that it only continues to push forward a skewed government that doesn’t focus on the needs of all the people in this country. I think the Bloc Québécois should be disolved and its…
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Protected: Dealing With Some Details
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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My Perfect Job
So someone recently asked me if my current job meets the needs and wants of my perfect job. Well, without divulging too many of the concessions made in order to have me stay at Charity Marketing Group, I’ll say: “mostly”. I will be able to get rid of my car…
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New Job? Not So Fast…
So, I’ve been crazy busy and stressed out lately. As some of you know, I was offered a job with United Way Ottawa. I was to be their Online Experience Officer. The position would have put me in a position where I was determining the content structure, growth, organization and…
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Input Overload
So the last few weeks, I’ve been super busy. Right now, I’m at the office, working away on an e-mail migration that I’ve been working on for the last two weeks. While a lot of it is babysitting the computers as they do their things, I’ve been super stressed, and…
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Should Customer Service Be Better Through Social Media?
So a month ago, I ordered a laptop for my second boss, and had issues with the order. They cancelled the order on me, and I was so infuriated that I couldn’t even manage to continue working on ordering it. How could a company not take my money because of…
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WordPress.com Password Reset Request
I’ve had my WordPress.com account since the service started years ago, and I’ve gotten over two dozen e-mail since then incorrectly trying to reset my password, as many people would like to have the sub-domain I have that originally came with my account. I’ve even received comments on the “dead”…
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