Impromptu Chicken Alfredo Pasta Recipe

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!

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Downloading PDF Files Using Python

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.

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So you joined Mastodon, Now What?

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.

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Replacing Zoneminder With Xeoma

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.

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Paramount, But What's The Plus?

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+.

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Claire

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