Malcolm Peralty

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  • Second Class Supers – Page 66

    Read Second Class Supers – Page 65 The tall glass and steel skyscraper shone in the early days light. Kya felt excited as she approached the building. She smoothed out her blouse tucking it neatly into her skirt, making sure everything looked perfect. The doors to the building were constantly opening and closing as a… Read more

  • Star Trek: Secrets – Page 8

    Read Star Trek: Secrets – Page 7 The bridge was simple, and reminded him of the Defiant class of ships. The command chair was in the center, with spots for others in a semicircle in front of him. The biggest difference, and one that would only matter to someone in his profession, was that the… Read more

  • Second Class Supers – Page 64

    Read Second Class Supers – Page 63 Kya read Sam’s message over and over, trying to decipher his tone. She was fairly sure that he was not impressed with her for causing him to have to hide out for a few days, and she knew they had not spent much time together recently. She worried… Read more

  • Guaranteed Income Program

    Guaranteed Income Program

    I recently found a very interesting discussion on Reddit about welfare programs. Someone asked if the US would save or spend more money if they cut all the current programs and changed to a flat-rate, guaranteed minimum income system, click here to read the full Reddit post. A user, by the name of imkharn, responded… Read more

  • Running the 2014 WordPress Theme

    Running the 2014 WordPress Theme

    I am now running one of the new default themes that WordPress ships with. Created for the next major release, Twenty-Fourteen has been added to WordPress.com. From it’s release post: For the first time ever, the yearly default theme for WordPress is ready to go before its namesake year begins. Consider it an early holiday… Read more

  • Markdown, WordPress and Me

    My job lately has been to work with converting our documentation for Gravity Forms from MediaWiki to Markdown. One of the developers has worked on markdown rendering for WordPress, and now it looks like WordPress.com has added Markdown processing. What is Markdown? Markdown is a set of rules for writing text that is processed and… Read more

  • Another Weight Loss Update

    Tonight, I will be going to Weight Watchers with Annie and her sisters. I think I will be up, and probably a good three or four pounds. I took a week off from my weight loss journey this week, and while I didn’t track my weekend, I did track everything else, and I wasn’t really… Read more

  • Star Trek: Secrets – Page 7

    Read Star Trek: Secrets – Page 6 Exiting the turbolift, Leon was presented with a transparent hallway. His ship, the Raven, could be seen on the other side. It was long and sleek, looking like smaller, more aggressive Defiant class ship. It was built for speed, and stealth, but weapons were identifiable all over the… Read more

  • Marriage Prep: Complete

    Annie and I finished our Marriage Preparation course with the Church this past weekend. It was a marathon ten and a half hours of speeches, activities, conversations, music and praying. Overall, I found the course to be pretty good. Read my previous thoughts on marriage prep here: Marriage Prep Course. Throughout the day, I continued… Read more

  • Second Class Supers – Page 62

    Read Second Class Supers – Page 61 The sun had already set as Marge led Kya to the First Gen village. Shimmying along the fence, the entrance was even harder to find than before. They arrived at the wall at the same time as a trio of Shadow Striders. “Callidus?” Kya asked the three covered… Read more

  • Star Trek: Secrets – Page 6

    Read Star Trek: Secrets – Page 5 “Hey Leon!” An older, but chipper voice came through the still opening airlock to the station. Despite not being able to see who it was on the other side, he recognized it as the engineering chief, Commander O’Donnell. Once he was completely revealed, Leon gave a nod to… Read more

  • 100 Percent Wind Powered Denmark

    Denmark is making the news today because it has had a day where its wind power energy production was higher than its total usage (Source: Energy Transition). As a country, they are looking to have one hundred percent of their energy be from renewable resources by 2050. The Danes have loads of relatively inexpensive wind… Read more