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Moving a VHD (disk image) between Azure Storage accounts with x-plat CLI

Sep 30, 2016 3 min read how-to

I’ve discovered I’ve accidentally created a VHD in a Premium storage account, so I wanted to migrate it into a standard one. (Premium data are stored on SSDs and much more

Windows 10 video playback broken after the Anniversary update - solution

Aug 16, 2016 1 min read how-to

Sometime last year I got frustrated by my system’s apparent inability to play web videos. Back then, it had turned out to be my fault (no surprise there) – I hadn’t realized

Discord - a new voice and text messaging platform.

Jul 13, 2016 4 min read tools

Discord’s [https://discordapp.com/] tagline is quite bold: “All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers

Data and Goliath, by Bruce Schneier

May 19, 2016 1 min read books

I’d recommend Bruce Schneier’s book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World to anyone who uses (or comes in contact with) any electronic devices.

csv-to-sqlite - copying from CSV files to a SQLite database

May 4, 2016 2 min read tools

csv-to-sqlite is a command line tool that **takes CSV files and dumps their contents into a SQLite database**. The basic gist: for each file, the script creates a database table with the same name, tries to guess the data type, then copies all the data into the database.