Category: General
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Pixel Has Reached Viability
For those of you that don’t read my wife’s blog, or follow me on social media, you might be surprised to find out that our surrogate has passed the twenty-four week point with Pixel, our nickname for the baby, meaning we’ve reached minimum viability! Okay, sure there are things that…
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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…
Malcolm Peralty 