This will turn into a cliche, but it's not there yet.

If you find that the Memory Integrity setting in Windows 10 turns itself back on when you reboot after having turned it off, try this: go to Control Panel → Programs → Turn Windows features on or off, and enable Hyper-V. Reboot.

I paid for it once, therefore I should be allowed to keep it running forever. Thus spake my sense of entitlement. My sense wasn't wrong, but it sure didn't know what suffering was ahead.

When recompressing videos it's a good idea to get the video as right as possible. Since we're going to apply lossy compression to it we want to make sure that we end with as good a copy as possible.

A sign of spring, a herd of deer graze on the small green shoots found under the thick layer of last year's autumn leaves.

A large cemetery in Siena, dating from 1784.

Near the center of Milan, in its Zone of Silence, you can find a building with a very stylish intercom - right next to the entrance is a large bronze ear where guests could announce their arrival. It's Casa Sola-Busca, more known as Cà dell'oreggia or House of the Ear. This old-school intercom was in use until it became famous enough that random passers-by would shout into it and annoy the tenants.

I think it's time we started properly curb stomping Russia. You don't win by incremental means, you win by really going for the kill.

Shape, not color. Maybe not strictly brut (raw) due to polishing, but I'd say raw enough.

A winter walkabout.

Get into video, and you soon realize one thing - these files take up space. "But storage is getting cheaper!" someone says. Yes, and I want that to translate to actual savings for me, not get eaten up by a horde of gigantic movie clips.

I find ice formations fascinating. A bit like the old-school plasma effect.

Nice winter sunset.

It's been hovering around freezing for a bit, but finally we got a proper delivery of the white stuff.

South of Perth, there is a place where every gnome can find a home.

It's winter: with the cold, but without the snow. Fun fact: the name Laduviken translates to "Barn Bay", but it's a lake, and the name comes from 17th century which was before the post-glacial rebound lifted the land enough to seal off the entrance from the Baltic Sea.