Here you’ll find things I have written that are generally opinions of mine, albeit opinions arrived at after careful consideration of empirical evidence and sometimes years of experience. Not guaranteed to be error free, but consider anything you read here to be fairly solidly based in reality, but subject to revision should more/better information come along.
June 23, 2022
Just a short post to share a good way to download videos embedded in webpages.Some videos are easy to download, as they have an obvious mechanism to do so, e.g. a download button. Some are a bit more tricky, especially with CDN hosted videos that have validation tokens and so on attached. This technique I […]
February 3, 2022
If you are ever in the position of not being able to log in to a Windows 10 machine, or the only account you have access to is a non-administrator account and you need admin access here is a way of getting that access.All you need is a Windows 10 install ISO, either burned to […]
January 21, 2021
So I am not a huge fan of Bitcoin. It is interesting and presents some useful ideas and the blockchain aspect is genuinely ground-breaking. As a currency it has mostly failed, and due to its finite number of coins available is unsuitable as a token that represents real-world value, as it is by design unable […]