Frankenblocks  + Concept So, I decided to create my own STEM system. Step number one was the decision to adapt and adopt Lego bricks. Step n...

Windows After an update, I was suddenly left with a 500 GB hidden folder on drive O: (this is my Drivepool storage machine), and I couldn...

Audiobook Review Love. Life. And zombies. This is a YA first person present tense audiobook exploring the 'I died and came back as a zom...

Amazon KDP  +  Writing Today I saw a commercial for a tool that would auto-generate complete books. Including all chapters, text, graphics, ...

Amazon KDP  +  Writing My 'to do' list for publishing something on Amazon KDP, including links to sources or sub-posts, whereever re...

Audiobook Review The third and final book of this trilogy. That, by itself, was a bit of a surprise, as these books had all the hallmarks of...

Wallpaper Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel has quite the voice, and the band has quite the reputation, but at first I didn't even...

Audiobook Review This... is a weird one. Take some dark, gothic fantasy elements, combine it with a family drama and a self-apreciating voic...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks A very simple small flat plate 2x4x1, marked with the 'Frankenblocks' logo. Nothing special, but it ha...

Datatalk Especially not pinouts! I have multiple modular PSUs in use, and a box full of cables matching these PSUs. You'd expect some  f...

Audiobook Review Book 1 of the Passenger series, in which the heroine is kidnapped from her own time (our time) and - obviously - travels th...

Windows I've updated the old page with some new entries. Go here.

Audiobook Review Faith Hunter (better known for her Romantasy stories) does a pretty good (Scifi) Apocalyptic series of novellas, all titled...

Frankenblocks How to combine Lego with other bits and pieces, including electronics. Here are the results of my search for 'competitors...

Wallpaper Just another random wallpaper... (Click on the image to enlarge)

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This is a  Frankenblocks  baseplate designed for Lego Technic. You can find the model on  Makerworld .

VirtualBox  +  Windows VirtualBox has a few more options in its latest incarnation, and a few defaults are different from previous releases....

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This is a  Frankenblocks  baseplate designed for Lego Technic. You can find the model on  Makerworld .

VirtualBox  +  Windows Symptom: stuck at 10% when installing Windows 11 Guest on Windows 11 Host in VirtualBox. Solution: lots of small thin...

VirtualBox  +  Windows Situation: You're running out of diskspace in a Windows client. Increasing the size in VirtualBox seems to work, ...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks Your most basic Lego compatible building block, the 'Hello World' equivalent in the 3D printing buildi...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This is the basic building plate I use for my Frankenblocks system. You can find the model on Makerworld . A c...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This piece is used in the  FB-10000-x Calibration package . You can find that package on Makerworld .

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks These objects can help you calibrate your printer. This should make it easier to print Lego compatible blocks,...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks Combining Lego and 3D printing shows again how much engineering went into those stupid little Lego bricks. I c...

Wallpaper Some of my wallpapers are just color themed, or relaxing, funny, or have a kind of special meaning. And sometimes I just want to e...

3D Printing + Frankenblocks Skiddle Skedaddle. Return of the Skiddler. Well, arrival of the Skiddler, at least. This is going to be my big ...

3D Printing When3D printing objects, you may encounter crimp / shrinkage, when the material cools down. Where to adjust these parameters in ...

Wacom +  Windows (Mostly notes for myself.) I'm using an old Wacom with some old and new software. These are notes on how to set up and...

Wacom +  3D Printing  +  DIY One of those things where there is no good solution, except ordering a new cable... because Wacom decided to p...

OBS  +  Windows I'm writing this new OBS install post, as newer releases use different options, and things were getting a little confusi...

3D Printing  +  Plate Lab Not all cold plates are created equal. And many are simply not cold plates at all. Here's a comparison between...

Datatalk I'm not a data hoarder (well, a bit, perhaps) but I like to keep stuff locally, so I have a few larger drives, and you know wha...

Windows HWInfo64 is a nice program, but it has two disadvantages: 1. It needs to run with Admin rights 2. It sometimes forgets the location ...

3D Printing What am I going to print this year? I have no clue yet. But I reserved a post / page for all my crap 😁

Wallpaper  + Planescape Four different wallpapers, all based on Sigil's Lady of Pain. If you haven't played D&D, you haven't...

Countdown This blog is a individual, personal  opinion. It may not match yours, and that's fine. I mean, opinions are like arseholes... ...

Countdown  + Windows Migrating Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office is an artform by itself. I'm still investigating and messing aroun...

Countdown  +  Column I think I'll leave it up to you to decide what part of the world this applies to, but it is scary how certain polit...

Countdown  +  Column On July 23, halfway the year, and I'm not sure if I should count the first half of the year as fantastic or just a ...

Countdown June 2025... and I decided it can't be all about doom and gloom. Let's talk about something fun! How about Dungeons & ...

Countdown + Column I'm trying my best to stay positive, but sometimes I wonder if this is the moment we see Fermi's Paradox in ful...

Countdown March 21, and life still sucks. Even more so than usual. Somehow I just don't feel like writing much lately. It's a kind o...

Countdown + Writing This year, my countdown schedule is a periodic flashback every 5 weeks. It's now February 18, and it's time to ...

Gaming Is this a little Sony 'Oops'? I found an interesting banner on Sony's PlayStation page...

DIY + 3D Printing  + Dutch (Hoe noem je zoiets?) Ik heb (helaas) een nieuwe wasmachine (Bosch), en wilde er de wasdroger (een Zanussi) weer...

Music Added some manuals to the  Solid Monitor page . (These oldies still work great!)

Wallpaper Sometimes you just need a wallpaper that looks kinda' electrifying good on a dual monitor setup.

Wallpaper It's somewhat like T+2000 ( 2000 days after I expected what would be the worst day for Corona / Covid ) and my wallpaper is a ...

Datatalk Fuck HitFilm Express. Fuck FXHome. Fuck Artlist. Fuck every piece of software that requires online activation. Because you  will  b...