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Review. A group of kids strands (more or less) in a parallel world where they turn out to be the characters they liked to play on ...

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Book Review A relaxed read, a good book. You know it's going to be all right in the end, and yet you won't mind. And I needed s...

Column + RPG + Mindmap I must have been talking about role-playing games, and especially the Amber Diceless RPG, in the past. For yea...

Review. I like my eBooks good, and my audiobooks cheap. Finding a decent title cheap is sometimes a challenge though, so The Emperor’s E...

Let me start by saying I do NOT like to build my own PC. Once upon a time, long, long ago, I considered it fun. These days I just may ...

Review. Ye' ol' pirate, matey! This one isn't marked as a 'young adult' novel, but perhaps it should be. Two young g...

DIY  + Domotics This post describes my Homematic heating control system. I live in a place with four floors (it's not as big as you...

DIY With all the recent security scares you may want to carefully consider what you want to do with it. But... if you decide you still ...

Review. First time I saw this was in 1995, but this anime series was actually released in 1989. That's almost 30 years ago... ...

Review. There could be a reason you want an (USB3) card reader in your PC. In general, you'd better opt for an external unit, regard...

Review. Dark Fantasy, sometimes a bit predictable with a so so ending, but overall enjoyable and worth a re-visit. The majority of Fei...

Book Review Today, that's  Archer's Goon by Diana Wynn Jones. Somebody once told me it's a parody on Zelazny's Amber ...

Review. I watched this one ages ago when I first discovered anime. And it's sub-genres... Bishounen... Ecchi... Mecha... Shounen... ...

Windows 10 might be the best Windows ever (at least according to Microsoft) but there are some issues... Let's ignore horrible Wind...

Book Review. I tried this after her Sirantha Jax books, which were fine. Not SF this time, but demons, demigods, and love affairs. ...

Review. Ah, Travelers is back. The long gap between season 1 and 2 (at least here on Netflix) made me somewhat forget about thi...

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Series Review Fringe seemed at first to be another X-files clone. and though there's quite a bit 'episodic' stuff, there...

Review  + Domotics +  Dutch De meeste huishoudens hebben tegenwoordig een 'slimme' meter. Die 'slimheid' zit hem voorname...

Movie Review What to make of this... Will Smith returns to the silver... no, scratch that. Will Smith returns to the small screen, in a...

Audiobook Review Many 'space operas' have a similar theme: Earth develops instant space travel, encounters other humans in sp...

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Book Review Fowler's Roofworld is like a 'light' version of Gaiman's Neverwhere. Still it is an enjoyable read. ...

Datatalk For some reason ☺ I wanted to use a location aware app on my Android tablet, which didn't have a GPS receiver. There are sev...

Book Review In 1995, book clubs still existed. If, at the time, you were a member of one of those 'bookclubs' (mail order subsc...

Dutch  + Amazon Amazon is de grootste (online) boekhandel ter wereld, maar als Nederlandse gebruiker is niet altijd alles even duidelijk....

Datatalk  + Kobo  Amazon heeft duizenden audiobooks en ebooks. Maar ja, niet iedereen heeft een Kindle e-reader. Wat te doen? Kijk eerst ...

Audiobook Review A human empire breaks down after millennia of corruption, and a marine detachment that escaped the downfall of humanity...

Column To turn things your way, you do not have to manipulate facts , you could also simply manipulate perception , which is perfectly le...

Movie Review I'm impressed (and a little disappointed but that might be because I was expecting something else, not because the stor...

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Book Review  + Amber With Halloween approaching I thought it would be a good moment to re-read A Night in the Lonesome October. Late R...

Series Review This series must be tailo- made for the 40+ crowd, as its situated in the 80's. I remember those bicycles! Promising, b...

Series Review I just watched some Neo Yokio on Netflix. And didn't like it at all. But... Some animator, designer, script writer o...

Column + Mindmap How much Ninja Theory does a Chicken Samurai need? Kip Samoerai Salade , aka Chicken Samurai Salad . Which either ...

Book Review Triggered by (again) one of Jan’s reviews, I think. Keep them coming :-) Both books are good reads If you like some interd...

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Datatalk +  Music + Squeezebox SQB is a small tool to modify playlists, and helps identifying and correcting missing files in y...

Audiobook Review In this universe the humans have encountered a (literally) giant enemy called the Lankies. And they (the humans) are loosin...

Gaming The XBox 360 is dead. So, let's buy one. Seriously? Buying an XBox 360 when even its successor the (first generation of the) Xbox...

Datatalk  + Kobo +  Dutch Heb ik net een uitgebreide handleiding geschreven voor de Kobo Glo met de  oude  software ( hier te vinden ) komt...

Datatalk  + Dutch Wifi problemen? Deze uitleg helpt je Wifi problemen op te lossen en te voorkomen, voor zover mogelijk. De belangrijks...

Datatalk  + Dutch Wanneer je een bibliotheek hebt van duizend(en) boeken is het beheer op een (trage) e-reader eigenlijk onmogelijk. Het is ...

Datatalk  + Kobo +  Dutch MediaMarkt en allerlei andere adressen hebben nu een 'refurbished' Kobo Glo E-reader, met 2 jaar volledig...

Datatalk I am running a small, Windows 7 based home-server in my home. Its primary function is to serve music to my Squeezebox music player(...

Datatalk I ran into a problem with Google Calender. On my device (phone) I saw 'duplicate' events, ie. the same event twice, but in ...