Column. No matter how you categorize series, movies, books, you will always find examples that do not fit in. That refuse to respect certa...

Review. Remember the old Bubblegum Crisis ? Well, here's the remake, brought into a slightly newer era (we want rock, we want roll)....

Review. Another typical disaster flick. The first half is actually fun, with airplanes flying between, under, and even thru crumbling b...

Column. What is your opinion on fanfiction / fanfiction authors? I don't mind, but I've never written a fan fiction, I once tri...

Review. Scum. That's what the aliens are called. Horrible. That's what these books are. Sorry.

I'm absolutely NOT a good writer, but I'm trying to improve. Which is hard... And one of the hardest things is dialogue. Then...

Review. Re-watched this one after a long time, and realized perhaps it's not as bad as most people (critics) said it was. Perhaps a li...

Review. Old fashioned hard SF. Not too bad though severely outdated, and sometimes loses the pace. Still an enjoyable read (if you can han...

Review. Words Worth will have the old poet crying in his grave. Anyway, no idea what the title has to do with this short series. Not a ...

A writer's nightmare. It's very, very easy to do them wrong. And yeah, I did struggle, and still do. The site Grammarbook seems ...

Review. A re-read. I pretty much managed to forget about most of the book, except for the stasis field and the cloning aspect near the e...

Column. For the whole of my life, I've been dreaming about becoming a writer. I never thought I would ever write in first-person pre...

Review. I'm one of those infidels who claims the original Batman movie was way, way better than the Nolan vehicles. And it's all...

Review. The first book clearly starts out as a YA, but by the end of book 6 we've partially left YA territory. Young (not so mag...

Will it happen? I don't know. But, frankly, I'm a little scared. People appear to assume the worst is over. Yes, the numbers app...

Sometimes it's easier to have a shortcut to some Windows 10 option directly from the desktop. Here's a list of all (well, some 😁)...

Review. Starts with lots of sword and little sorcery, slowly moves into more sorcery then sword. Then ends in a rush. Actually not bad...

Do you have trouble with 'paragraphing'? Here's my little take on it, it just might be of use to you as well. And if I'm u...

Hoe koppel je LED verlichting? Of andere gelijkstroom spullen? Er zijn allerlei producten in de handel, maar sommigen zijn belachelijk duu...

Review. Horrible. Yet another book (series) about some Larry Stu figure, kidnapped by aliens, to become yet another soldier, sergeant, c...

It's hard to believe a country like China would deliberately release a disease like this. Frankly, I don't think they did. But i...

Review. Space opera, but in spite of some good ideas not great stuff. Frankly the narrator (yeah, an audio book yet again) gets it right...

... is a hassle. Assume you want to create a backup copy of your Windows boot drive. Or you want to replace that old hard disk with a ne...

We survived so far. It's T-day, the world is still turning, and Trump is still in power. (I don't like the guy much, to be honest....

Column. I've updated my post 'Fortuitous Space Battles'  and added micro jumps, transformation cannons, missile payloads, sh...

Column. Dutch. Ja... die laadpaal boefjes toch... Even ongeacht de discussie of electrisch en / of hybride rijden schoner is voor ...

Review. Pirate captain becomes officer in the (space) navy of the king of Avalon, of course against her will. Throw in some space viking...

Today it’s April 4, 4 days after the latest issue of Dapper , a few months after TellTales! #100 ,  and I have no idea in what state we al...

Column. As you may have noticed I do like (some) military SF, and it’s fine if that borders on not all too realistic Space Opera...

... isn't the next Harry Potter book. Unfortunately, no matter what you try, Windows 10 may suddenly become very forgetful of your i...

How a distant disease became our closest friend… Two months ago Wuhan was a remote place, and nobody was paying all too much attention t...

Review. Well... I dunno. Typical conscripted lonesome soldier fights on some remote world, then becomes hero against all odds, then lead...

Let's face it. Social distancing has nothing to do with protecting YOU. We're all going to be sick. Some of us are going to die....

The Dutch government has given the advice to limit social interaction to a minimum, keep 1.5 meters of distance, and only go to work if ab...

Column. So. A historical moment. TellTales #100, my little contribution to Dapper , an APA . (The  APA 😇) For 25 years I've been ...

Corona is here. I made a quick estimate when the impact of the Corona virus would be largest, and that would have to be in 42 days. Th...

Thanks, Microsoft. For... for... for everything! But especially for cheating me out of all the hours I could have spend more productive....

Review. My first Stross novel deals with the Singularity, a 'hypothetical moment in time when any physically conceivable level of te...

Several webpages have a copy protection, ie. you cannot copy texts and / or objects by marking a section, then copy it by pressing the Rig...

Review. Netflix doesn't get it right all the time. In fact, there's lots of rubbish, and Netflix added their fair share to it. ...

Review. Not well known, and certainly harder to get over here (that is: Europe) it tells the tale of a young girl who found herself in a...

Review. Marines in space. 'Nuff said. Will appeal to some, but I found it a little flat. His work under the alias 'William H Kei...

Review. Most of the times I remember a book, movie or series. Perhaps not in details, but at least in some way. Browsing through my ol...

Review. One. Very. Bad. Movie.

Review. Lalonde continues, but I think the last two or three books in the Spinward Fringe series haven't been as good as the earlie...

DIY. Dutch. WD40 is raar spul. Het helpt om tandwielen en schroefdraad te smeren, werkt als kruipolie, en je kunt er zelfs lijmresten me...

Review. Kung Fu Panda . I've seen this movie now... what? Four? Five? Six times? Once in the cinema, couple of times on DVD and NetF...

Review. I should change the title of this blog to 'reviews of old novels everyone already read'... I was never a big fan of Ne...

Review. We're at books 17, 18 and 19 of the Foreigner series. It looks like Cherryh isn't giving up. And, to be honest, these ar...

Hobbies are great. Combining hobbies is even better. After fixing up my 'rollsnijder' (papercutter) I found a new use for the 3D p...

Review. Netflix does bring a lot of Anime lately. Some of it awful, some of it not that bad. Some of it... euh... incomplete. To quote...

Although many products from China are great, their documentation is often... lacking. Here's the MiLight (FutLight) FUT014W. It'...