Category Archives: personal
Accessing EXT4 drives from Windows10
People are stil asking how to do this in forums today; presumably mostly dual boot uses that want to look at their Linux partiton. This post is primarily for EXT4 filesystems as those are the ones used when installed supplied … Continue reading
Off on a tangent again, WebAssembly
WebAssembly is now has official specifications published by W3C. Highlighted by this article on the register site. WebAssembly is a standard developed by the W3C WebAssembly Working Group. Today all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, mobile browsers) and Node.js … Continue reading
Globally changing URLs in WordPress posts
Over the decades my WordPress site has had a few different URLs, and I thought I had managed to keep them all up to date as I changed sites. Using owasp-zap (under Kali) to test my site it did manage … Continue reading
Windoze10 updates frozen
After over a month of windows 10 updates being stuck at 15% complete, using a combination of wireless and physical ethernet cable (I thought maybe it would not do updates over wireless, but that was not what was stopping it) … Continue reading
Future personal posts have moved
This blog was getting rather full of personal posts when it should be filled with rambling thoughts on technology or software I was playing with, or complaining about. So I have created a new blog under my personal section on … Continue reading
New Toy has arrived – Lytro (first generation) Light Field Camera
The offical Lytro webpage for this camera is right here costing $149 US… I of course used Amazon to purchase a new product where it was only $112 US (heck a $80NZ saving, use Amazon). Do not buy this product … Continue reading
Car issues, well not really, I like this car
The mitsubishi and honda cars I used to buy all the time had one major issue. When the check engine light came on you pulled over immediately and waited for a tow truck. My current little mercedes threw up a … Continue reading
Went to annual Otaki Kite Festival
Took some photos of the kites. Was going to take some video but the only status message on the video camera screen was ‘flat battery’; and I refuse to use video mode on may min cameras on principal. Did not … Continue reading
My birthday, actually purchased something
As a general rule in past years my birthday has just been another boring day. My only purpose in the last few years has been stuffing money away into a account for someone I care about that doesn’t want anything … Continue reading
Wings Over Wiarapa 2015
Bad weather in WN, metservice website said sunny in Masterton so decided to go to Castlepoint for a swim. Never got there, in Mastertom there was a sign pointing to the airshow, heck it only happens once every two years … Continue reading