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Building a webarchive with Archivebox

Link rot (archived-link) is a very real thing, and something that I'm noticing even more now. In 2020 I was optimistic with so many friends and people that I followed on different social media platforms starting blogs, but only a couple years later they are offline, the sites, the people …

Reset WSL2 Password to default

Somethimes I don't use WSL on my main machine for long periods of time and I forget the user password, so I've done this more than once.

Step 1:

Open a command prompt as administrator.

Get the Name of the WSL installation

wsl --list --verbose
Screenshot of where we are so far

Step 2: Set default user …

Royal Bank Doesn't Respect You

I had to get on the phone today with RBC support to dispute a charge on my card. The vendor decided to not cancel my account like I asked in the winter, they then switched platforms, locked me out of my account, and then told me that its been more …

Strange Looking Birds

I still haven't figured out how to add the image in the meta field to the post "nicely" so I have moved it to the bottom of the theme and will manually put them in the microblog. It may make some of the featured images look funny being at the …

I'm getting old, and now I know it

I think that I have experienced the obvious sign that I'm getting old. My favourite shoes for the last 5yrs are worn through and I can't find them on the companies Canadian page. This is a sign because I EXPECTED TO FIND IT.

In the age of new iphones every …

365Project - Day 53

I had to agree to a new terms and conditions to access my Lightroom library today and that means that this is the first time that I have used darktable to process an image for this site.

Eariler this year I gave darktable a try and decided to continue with …

365Project - Day 51

I did a bit of continued cleanup on the theme for the site, it is starting to get to be something that I like better. I also re-arranged it some so that the header image is in the RSS feed. Pelican doesn't allow for you to create your own RSS …

365Project - Day 48

And good news, comments are back. I took them off to give commento another try, but their docs are offline and I would like to understand PHP a bit better. It has evolved a lot as a programming language since I worked with it.

So I'm using Hashover 2.0 …

Autumn Backyard Birdfeeders

We didn't have a birdfeeder this year, there was just too many warnings from provincial natural resources about the amount of bird flu in the wild population, so instead we grew flowers.

During the summer there were a few birds, but mostly pollenators, now that autumn is in full swing …