Malcolm Peralty

The new Xbox 360 announced today at E3 2010 looks amazing. Smaller form factor, nice lines, shiny black finish and that’s just on the outside. Inside it sports a 250GB hard drive, built-in WiFi, and a new CPU/GPU combo on a 45nm architecture (hopefully meaning that there will no longer be red rings of death).… Read more

My Uncle is due back soon and recently sent my family an e-mail talking about his exit. My best friend just recently went over to Afghanistan. I sometimes wish I was a civilian contractor over there, laying networking cable, making some great money, and seeing what little of the area that I’d be permitted to… Read more

I haven’t had a real vacation in over five years now, and I am definitely feeling the burn out, but on the flip side, I sometimes wish I could cash in my potential vacation for more money. I really don’t understand how I got myself into this situation. I would really love to take some… Read more

There are only a few things that I really hate doing, and here’s the ones I can think of off the top of my head: Washing Dishes – I have no problem putting away dishes, but I hate washing them by hand. Driving – I’ve previously discussed this, see Driving and Green Ideals. Laundry at… Read more

I ran into this discussion on Reddit: Your ultimate Sci Fi tech list and felt that I just had to work on a list here for the fun of it. First off, I want to say that the originator of the topic definitely is of the same mind as me, so there will definitely be… Read more

Recently I broke my glasses. I knocked them off as I was exiting the car at work, and the arm broke away from the rest of the glasses. I quickly drove home and super-glued the arm back on, but despite the strength of super-glue, it didn’t really stay. I had to glue it two more… Read more

I suffer from a really bad memory. I don’t remember the names of people, places or things very easily. I don’t have strong memories of my childhood, save for a few pieces that wouldn’t even make a blockbuster length movie. For as long as I can remember, my memory has been poor. It took me… Read more

I just got back from seeing The Karate Kid at the theatre, and while I enjoyed the movie, it brought up an interesting thought in my head about why the movie is so successful: the main character is taught how to overcome the major issue in his life by a mentor. Thinking back, I’ve always… Read more

Sometimes you come across a song that really resonates with how you are feeling and one that is really haunting me lately is Where is My Mind by the Pixies, a song from the Fight Club soundtrack. Read more