3D Printing + The Long Road I used my printed drying cover to heat two spools over a longer period of time, and the results weren't imp...

Travel + Dutch Heerlijk toch, vakantie in het buitenland... lekkere snelwegen, een vignetje, beetje tol betalen... Duh. Even voor mezelf wa...

Audiobook Review An accidental find, but I like it. This is hard SF, involving a world past the brink of ecological disaster (with many peop...

Windows Let's get rid of OneDrive and CoPilot and streamline some other stuff... Who needs that crap... Unfortunately, Microsoft may at ...

Travel + Dutch Een nieuw jaar, een nieuwe kans 😁 Nog een poging voor de Alpen? Verleden jaar heb ik al een stukje Timmelsjoch en Stelvio g...

Audiobook Review +  Alexandra Bracken This is the sequel to Passenger . It's an interesting read, and the main character appears a bit ...

3D Printing + Plate Lab Based upon my own experiences, and stuff I gathered on the internet. Click on the image to open the table . Note: a...

3D Printing  + The Long Road I own an AMS-HT, but not all rolls / spools fit. You can, however, also dry your filament inside your printer, ...

Audiobook Review + Dan Willis Lately I’m encountering a lot of detective / film noir inspired stuff. There’s Sugar on Apple TV, Spider-Noir...

Wallpaper A cat so dangerous, even a Flerken would keep its distance... Jonesy (aka Jones) is of course the red tabby from Aliens - and one...

Audiobook Review + Zoe Hana Mikuta YA NA / FF / Post-apocalyptic / Mechas / First Person Present Tense. Love betrayal combat mechas. Can it...

3D Printing + The Long Road Peltiers are interesting things. Inefficient interesting things.

Series Review + Apple TV + Sugar Ah... What to make of this... Good, but...

3D Printing + The Long Road "I love it when a plan comes together." Yeah, so do I. But sometimes... It doesn't. So, here'...

3D Printing + Plate Lab With the P2S and X2D Bambu made some changes to the Aruco codes. I couldn't find a detailed description yet (an...

Audiobook Review + Xiran Jay Zhao Iron Widow is the first part of a duology / trilogy / series (?) with the same name. It describes Wu Zet...

3D Printing + Plate Lab In modern day 3D printers you have a lot of choice in build plates, filaments, temperatures, speeds, making it almo...

Windows Sometimes Windows 11 is sooooooo annoying. Place a link to a webpage on your desktop... works. Drag it to the taskbar... can't p...

Datatalk Jellyfin is a free alternative for Plex (and as you may have noticed Plex has gotten a little top heavy lately). Unfortunately, the...

Wallpaper With the temperature outside rising and rising (we passed 35 yesterday) I present you a matching (dual monitor) wallpaper... (Clic...

Audiobook Review + Adrian Tchaikovsky The third installment in the series, and (at first) very confusing, but in the end it all makes sense...

Series Review + Apple TV + Sugar Season one episode one. Very weird, but I love it. I've just finished episode one, and... this is wei...

Audiobook Review + Adrian Tchaikovsky Book 2 in the Children of Time series. I'm probably one of the few who hasn't completed the ...

Frankenblocks  +  Concept It's time to settle on a specific module size, and decide how a default 'baseplate' should look like.

Audiobook Review + Amie Kaufman First person, present tense, YA. romance / science-fiction. Classic recipe, and typical Amie Kaufman. But.....

Frankenblocks + Concept We settled on Lego (or the Lego dimensions and stud concept) as the basis for our own STEM system, and I've nam...

Wallpaper Just a pretty picture... Looks great on (very) large screens. (Click on image to enlarge.)

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 .