Category: General
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One Year at Acquia
Recently, I crossed a milestone at Acquia having been there for a year. It is neat to see my name listed on the anniversary emails and presentations that go out to staff. At the start of my journey, I didn’t know if I’d make it a year, and now I…
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Space Battle Royale: Part 2
I published a blog post five years ago about a Space Based Battle Royale game that I’d love to play and no one has made it yet, not even me! I still think it has some legs, so I wanted to post more about it in hopes that it might…
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Sportage Serenity
Annie and I have been contemplating our next vehicle purchase for almost four years now, and we are weeks away from driving home with a Kia Sportage. I’ve joked that maybe our next vehicle, when we are fifty will have the features we want in the colour we want it…
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AI Improvements
On December 16th, 2022, I wrote a post called AI Generated Fiction Content. Lately, I’ve been seeing videos of people doing everything with AI tools, even publishing entire books. What I wanted to do today was circle back around and see what ChatGPT 4 would do for the prompt I…
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AI Generated Fiction Content
I have been playing with machine learning and generative tools over the past few months and I wanted to highlight ChatGPT, a currently free natural language processing chatbot. Today, I went to over to the Writing Prompts subreddit on Reddit where I grabbed the following prompt: Your roommate is a…
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Surviving Covid
I was terrified of getting Covid because I’ve had pneumonia seven times, and bronchitis more than a dozen times. Anything respiratory is scary to me, especially something killing millions of people around the world. So when I saw that the rapid test was positive, my heart sank. It was Thursday…
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You Don’t Host Your Site Yourself
So a comment that keeps coming up all the time is that people should host their blog or website themselves because otherwise they could be shut down by some company, but I really don’t like when people say you should “host it yourself”! Here’s the thing, if your site is…
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CBC All in a Day: Housing in Kingston Panelist
Recently, I got to be a panelist on a quick segment of All in a Day with Alan Neal for CBC Ottawa where I was asked to talk about housing in Kingston. I was the lucky panelist out of the three invitees. I spend a fair bit of time on…
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Ioniq 5 Trips
We often make trips of four to eight hours of driving over the course of a day, so with a fully electric vehicle will we constantly be concerned about range? Will we be sitting at chargers for hours on end every day draining our phone batteries wishing we had a…
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Vehicle Supply Chain Issues
I noticed that Hyundai was selling out of it’s 2022 vehicle models for hybrid and electric vehicles so my wife and I decided to reach out to our local dealership to see about reserving a Hyundai Ioniq 5, but it looks like we won’t be able to get one. Check…
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BetterHelp – Online Therapy
I have been using BetterHelp (affiliate link) for a couple months this time and have found it to be very helpful, but like most things, it really depends on a few key factors: how much effort I put in and picking the right person to help me. I had tried…
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Crypto Bot Trading: Part 2
If you haven’t seen part 1, please check out that first. Note, I am not a financial expert, these are just all my opinions, please do your own research. Signals One of the things you’ll see when setting up a bot is the Deal Start Condition. This is the signal…
Malcolm Peralty 