Malcolm Peralty

So last night, I was invited over to Andrea’s place. Andrea has been my “Walkerton mom” and close friend while I’ve been here. Her knowledge of everyone, her connections, and her continuing invitations over to her place to share in her family’s experiences has been a huge saving grace while I’ve been isolated from everyone… Read more

So recently, I posted on Problogger about my intentions to start blogging in a way to hopefully build a small business for myself, and it wasn’t really met with the greatest of responses… Basically they told me that I wasn’t confident enough in myself, and that I shouldn’t be asking for support from the community.… Read more

So today at lunch I talked to my new boss about marketing and advertising online. While exciting, it was feels a little like an extra stress. I’m trying to finish out my current job at one hundred percent, while organizing a search for a new apartment, offloading anything I don’t think I can move, and… Read more

So, I am almost done my last project with the County of Bruce, and it is currently up for all to see, despite still needing some more love and attention from me: the Bruce County Public Library website. It is running WordPress, and only around three plugins. The design is hyper-efficient, and I’m happy how… Read more

One of my co-workers contacted me yesterday, and needed a hand doing some errands because his wife took the car to go stay at her families place for two weeks, leaving him no phone, and only a half working motorcycle. Since my plans were only to pack and clean, I decided procrastinating is acceptable when… Read more

I move a lot, too much, but one thing that never changes is how much I hate packing. Getting my stuff together and putting it in boxes is an activity that ranks pretty high on my list of things I’d rather do later. Unfortunately, I’m running out of later and so I am trying to… Read more

I need to find people that I can be friends with that are interested in writing/blogging often. I don’t feel very connected to many of the people in my life because I don’t communicate the same way that they do, and it has become a serious issue for me. You’d think finding blogging geeks I… Read more

In a recent post (Authoring a DVD That Works), I was having issues creating a DVD for a co-worker, and as usual, my copy of Nero saved the day. I didn’t even notice the option to burn a movie DVD, and what’s even better is that the software can transcode AVI files, so I just… Read more

Last night, a few co-workers of mine implemented the new SonicWall firewall, and now I can’t access a variety of different websites. It is annoying, but not totally unexpected. One of the biggest issues for an organization is controlling access and keeping things secure. The best way to do this is to limit control. I… Read more