Malcolm Peralty

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  • What is Second Class Supers?

    Annie and I were chatting at my place after work one evening and I had mentioned that I had come up with a new story idea that I wanted to work on. Annie added that she had been thinking it might be interesting for her and I to collaborate on a story, since I love… Read more

  • Working Title: Second Class Supers – Page 4

    Read Second Class Supers – Page 3 Kya arrived at the Uptown Centre, the largest shopping mall in the city, and was surprised at the number of security guards hanging about. They were pacing back and forth at each of the doors. Despite not doing anything, Kya felt guilty, and she quickly made a bee-line… Read more

  • One Thousand Comments

    Since starting this blog, I’ve received one thousand comments. On average, I receive 29 comments per month. The most commented post on this blog was entitled, modX Admin UI Thoughts. The person that has commented the most times on this blog is Tom Leroux a.k.a. WTL, with over 110 comments. I wanted to take a… Read more

  • Working Title: Second Class Supers – Page 2

    Read Second Class Supers – Page 1 After a few hours of listening to music, Kya took roughly twenty minutes to swap out and shelve the hard drives again. As the time passed she felt more relaxed, and began to belt out lyrics from the songs as they played through her headphones. Singing was something… Read more

  • Big MegaPixel Canon Camera Refresh

    So, in my earlier discussions and thoughts on the Canon 70D (My Next Camera: Canon 70D), I as pretty certain that the camera would come out with a 18MP sensor, like the 60D, T5i, and SL1, but Canon Rumors has just posted that they’ve been hearing chatter that the Canon 70D might have a larger… Read more

  • The Death of Culture: Restricted Sharing

    Microsoft recently made a huge mistake that had Annie and I discussing the culture attached to media, and we realized that while Microsoft is the most recent example, it is not the only example: companies are trying to kill the sharing of media and thus, by extension, culture. People are passionate about media such as… Read more

  • Negativity Over Distributing Premium Plugins

    Note – I work for rocketgenius specifically on their Gravity Forms product. My comments and opinions below are not those of my employer, nor do I have any inside information about company policy above and beyond what is published on their websites. There has been a huge discussion in the WordPress community about themes including… Read more

  • Niagara Falls ComicCon – Tim Russ

    So on Sunday, Annie and I took two guys that she works with to Niagara Falls ComicCon and had a great day of it. I don’t want to really go into detail about the event itself, but more just focusing on the Tim Russ Q&A session we went to first thing in the morning. Once… Read more

  • Protected: House Hunting

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more

  • Wrist Pain

    Yes, I know I’m opening myself up for a litany of jokes by posting about this, but here we go. A little bit over a week ago, I started experiencing a pain in my wrist. At first, I couldn’t figure out what had happened, but then I realized it must have been due to an… Read more

  • Desktop Computer I’d Love to Buy

    I have been running on just a laptop for half a year now, and while it is great for what my plans were, I definitely miss the power of a desktop, and the flexibility of Windows for socializing with my cousins (aka gaming). I have been thinking about what I would get if I could… Read more

  • WordPress Plugin Pricing

    Chris Lema has been writing some amazing posts about WordPress plugin pricing (WordPress Plugin Prices Are Too Low and More Thoughts on Pricing), and he has inspired others to write about the subject as well (Great Conversation On The Topic Of Plugin Prices and Setting Your WordPress Plugin Prices). Update: Carl, my boss and owner… Read more