Category: General
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.…
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Hearthstone Beta
So, I’m in the Hearthstone Beta, and I’m enjoying it a great deal. I haven’t got the strategy down yet and my cousin Kyle is beating me about eighty percent of the time when we play against each other, but it is still a great game. For those that don’t…
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Self Replicating Probes
There is a post on io9 that really appealed to me today, and got the science fiction center of my brain running on full tilt. It was entitled, How Self-Replicating Spacecraft Could Take Over the Galaxy and it discussed two things: how we could explore the galaxy using probes that…
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Visiting Family
This past weekend, Annie and I went to Kingston and I got to see some of my family. On Friday evening we arrived, and Kyle showed me the Hearthstone beta. I really enjoyed it and am psyched to get into the game, when I get a key… On Saturday, we…
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My Idea for Man of Steel 2
I’m not a huge DC fan. I am not the best qualified to write out a script for Man of Steel 2, and I don’t have any special information or knowledge about the direction they want to take, but I still feel compelled to share my ideas on what I…
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Friday Office in Georgetown
One of my favourite things to do in Ottawa when I lived there was to attend Friday Office with Tom Leroux. Since moving to Georgetown, I’ve continued the tradition, but it has changed slightly. In Ottawa, it was mostly people attending to do work together and participate in the odd…
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Ender’s Game Movie Review
Annie, Jn, and I saw Ender’s Game last night and I have to say that I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Plot synopsis: The International Military seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young mind, is…
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Marriage Prep Course
Annie and I are taking the marriage preparation course at her church. It is spread over three Saturdays, with a session every other week. The first two sessions are from ten in the morning until four thirty in the afternoon with the final session going from ten in the morning…
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