Category: General
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Name Change Thoughts
I have, for as long as I can remember, wanted to change my name. While my last name, Peralty, is fairly unique, I have never really felt like I was a “David”. Maybe that sounds weird to you and you’ve always thought of me as a “David”, but I’ve long…
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My Experience With a Domain Sale Scam
I recently had someone email me the following: Hello! Our client is interested in buying optimumppc.com. The buyer is an investor from Canada. I located your contact information in a domain name whois lookup and understand that you own the domain name. Are you still interested in selling? If you…
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32 .com Domains for Sale
I have more than a few domains and need to cut back on my list. I am taking offers on the following domains. Please use my Contact form or Comments form to let me know if you are interested. I am putting in my gut instincts on Canadian pricing for…
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Our Next Car: Tesla Model 3
Back in June of 2014, I made some predictions about what I thought the Tesla Model 3 would be like (Predicting the Tesla Model 3) and I feel I was wrong more than I was right, but guessing the future isn’t an exact science, and much of what I wrote…
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Would I Take Experimental Depression Treatments?
Yes. To answer that in a bit more detail, I should say that I keep an eye on what is happening in the space of depression treatments and I would love to help move advancements forward. I’ve been on and off treatment for nearly two decades now, and have found…
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Helping a Friend: PCM Industrial Solutions
Recently, my wife’s co-worker’s husband, Manuel, asked if I could help him with his business website: PCM Industrial Solutions. I took a look, and it was built using a WYSIWYG editor and needed some serious help. I compiled some changes he should make and presented him with the list. After…
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Picard’s Peanuts
Today we ended up going to Picard’s Peanuts in Morriston. The original plan was to go to a sugar bush today, but upon arriving, there were around two dozen cars waiting to pay to get in. So we decided not to join the slow moving line and instead tried to…
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Fortrus Financial Website Improvements
Each day I’m making progress on the Fortrus Financial company website. I’m not a Joomla expert by any means, but today I got the site to achieve a 90% or an A-rating on PageSpeed and achieved a load time of under two seconds on Pingdom’s website speed test. When I…
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Emotions are Hard
I can be slow at processing emotions, and that can be doubly difficult when those around me are actively experiencing theirs. With the passing of my Grandmother, I’ve been around many highly emotionally charged people but haven’t really felt any of my own. I don’t know if it is just…
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My Grandma’s Passing
Yesterday, my cousin, Kyle, called us while we were on our way home from Wal-Mart. The plan was to make dinner and chili for Annie’s work and then have a nice evening of watching some more of the final season of Stargate: Atlantis together. When I picked up my phone,…
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Looking for Beef Jerky
So, my favourite beef jerky, Big John’s Beef Jerky, is a bit too expensive for me right now thanks to the Canadian to US exchange rate, as well as my currently available disposable income, so I’m on the hunt for a new beef jerky. Since starting to eat Big John’s…
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Future Tech Frustrations: Regrow Teeth
Many of you likely don’t know this about me: I used to want to be a dentist. From kindergarten through grade six, it was one career that I always wrote in the Schooldays Treasures book my mom put together. I think a big part of the reason I wanted to…
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