A couple of nights ago I decided to try and make some “alfredo” sauce for Chicken Alfredo pasta and it was delicious so I figured I’d share my recipe here. I’m not a cook and I don’t really measure anything so use the below as a guideline only and have fun!
I saw a post on Mastodon yesterday about how Tom Lehrer recently put all his music, lyrics, and sheet music into the public domain, and also made them freely downloadable from his website. […] That’s a lot of clicking that I didn’t want to do, so I put together a small python script to download the PDF files for me.
Microsoft is trying really hard to get people to use a Microsoft account to log into Windows. Every edition of Windows 10 has made it more difficult to create a local user account during Windows Setup, and their newest operating system, Windows 11, is no different.

As Twitter continues to burst into flames and Elon Musk runs around Twitter HQ not knowing what to do while the building falls down around his head, you’ve decided to see what the deal is with this whole “Mastodon” thingy you’ve been hearing about.

I’ve been using Zoneminder for my home security cameras for about 10 years now, and I think it’s time for a change. Zoneminder has always been pretty stable for me, but lately it’s been causing a lot of problems that I don’t have the time or the energy to deal with anymore.
When I blogged about “cancelling Netflix” I said I would post an article comparing streaming services in Canada and… well I didn’t. And I’m sorry. Rather than a single article though I thought maybe separate posts and a summary article would be best… so here I am with the first in that series; Paramount+.

In one of my recent articles, “Life, Blog Stats, and {No} Profit”, I gave a breakdown on the number of visitors to my blog since I first created it in 2018. Today I want to focus on generating some of that data from the web server access logs themselves.