Music Today it's all about music... Manage your collection, rip music, play music online, find new stuff, etcetera. So... Spotify, Ja...

Review. With Heroes and Heroes Reborn  finished it is time to look back. What did I think of Heroes when it surfaced, back in 2007? ...

Review. In Flipside a group of people travel back in time through a kind of 'time bubble'. The actual flipping mechanism is inte...

Review. Now here's a pleasant surprise. I've always been partial to detective stories, and SF or Fantasy 'noir', and thi...

Review. There are actually two series of books staged in the same universe. Thus far I've only read book one of the second (spin-off...

Review. The cover blurb says it all: kids are not supposed to rescue their parents. Well, in this case they do. This is a YA but it...

Review. It’s military space opera, small federation fighting big evil commonwealth, hotshot pilot becomes captain after an accident. I...

Review. Turn retirees into cannon-fodder. It's some  kind of pension, I guess...

Gaming. Review. Remember  Alan Wake ? In 2010 Remedy Entertainment and Microsoft Studios released  Alan Wake  for XBox and PC. That's al...

SQB has been updated to 0.22x. It now can launch multiple instances of Sox, vastly improving conversion speed (3 to 4 times faster in typica...

Review. Nuttall continues. The guy is  productive, I'll give him that. He either makes a lot of money, or needs to write to just c...

Review. I did watch The X-Files - Fight The Future  a the second time. (The first time back in 1999.) It was disappointing then, and it ...

Question... Assume your console sits in in the living room... and your mother in law has a Tupperware party... and there's this brand ne...

Review. Cary Caffrey isn't a household name. Not surprising being an indie, self published author, and since 2011 a mere 3 books in ...

3D Printing + Domotics +  DIY I always found 3D printing fascinating, but with too many hobbies I just never found the time to delve a ...

Review. DeChancie wrote a spoof on Star Trek , featuring the starship 'Repuls(iv)e' with its not so very capable captain, poor c...

Review. In 1999 (wow, that long ago?) I saw the first X-Files movie called Fight the Future . I wasn't that impressed. I recently...

Time travel will put everyone's brain in a knot... Here's a list of all shows I know of and / or have watched in which time tr...

Review. Can a single episode redeem a show? Yes. It can. Travelers was discontinued on regular television, but it survived on ...

Review. Sorry. I wasn't very impressed with the second season, and would have given up if I did not hear such great things about thi...

Non-games... or software that helps me to create documents, images, 2D and 3D models, preferably free... Hey, I'm even willing to pay ...

Book Review I read two different, very  different books by the same author. At first I wasn't even sure if it was the same author as...

The new Kodi is here! Keep in mind that, although Kodi looks and works mostly the same, there are some differences between the different p...

Review. In 2003 I watched the anime series  Sol Bianca - The Legacy . I never saw the 90's series it was a sequel to (couldn't find ...

Gaming + PS4 +  Dutch Ik ben de trotse bezitter van een originele PS4, een eerste generatie model welke me trouw gediend heeft de l...

Column. How many nukes do we need to destroy the world? That depends…

Gaming + PS4 I'm the proud owner of an original PS4, a first generation model, which has served me fine for the last 3 years. Th...

Review. These are the first three books of The Dresden Files . Wizzard PI battles wolves and vampires and the IRS, all for a mere 50 buc...

DIY + Domotics +  Dutch Hmmm. In mijn vorige post rond sluipverbruik had ik niet de juiste waarde voor de WTW. Ik heb op zolder een St...

Review What do you do when you find yourself next to a beheaded corpse? And discover you're actually a fairy, in love, and somehow b...

I've updated Wakiewakie to v1.44. On some laptops Windows was reporting a successful ping even before a network connection was properl...

Completely useless... but beautiful in its own way. It looks like the  creator's website  is down, but if you simply google for Audio In...

Call it an early spring cleaning... And here's what I found: a Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K. Also known as the PCG-SR33K (I never was able t...

Column. It does! (And Ant Man and the Wasp proved it 😅) The world is getting smaller, or so I always thought. I (we) have been livin...

Wrapping up 2018, and Welcome to 2019! The image to the left takes you to the  home screen  which lists all major topics. To search this blo...

Review. Someone called this Now and then, here and there 'a harsh show', and boy oh boy, is it 'harsh' indeed.

Now that I have a Dolby Atmos capable setup, I need a. material to play, and b. a way to play that same material. I thought I had a...

Review. Starts as a space opera, turns into an exploration story, to end up with a bleak view of a bleak future. Hmm... Parts are good...

DIY  + Ikea Ikea is well known for their affordable furniture. You may dislike the style or wonder about the quality, but in general Ikea is...

Anime Review It is a bit confusing, but there is a comic series Gotham Knights , a home video release Gotham Knight , and The New Batman ...

Review. You may have heard of the Night of The Proms ? In spite of some blemishes I still enjoyed myself. Just John Miles' render...

RPG Someone asked me about the old Secomber file I created 10 (20?) years ago. In answer I restored a few pages from the old website. If yo...

Review. A book of facts about a fictive world. Some parts are lifted from the stories, many are new. And they're all funny. If you...

Column. I was the proud owner (user? licenseholder?) of Microsoft Office 2010. And now it is no more...

Dutch + Domotics Ben je een nerd, heb je wel een slimme meter maar nog geen BeeClear ? Gelijk eentje aanschaffen! (En nee, daar verdie...

Anime Review. Ah, romance, romance, a little bit medieval mecha, and more romance... And those weird, weird noses (gotta' watch it to...

A new version of SQB and this time we are proud to announce the new and awesome mix function based upon 'quirck' particles! The ...

Book Review 10 books or so (a decalogy?) by L. Ron Hubbard (mister Scientology himself). These books are somewhat 'okayish' but on...

DIY The Solid Monitor is a speaker manufactured early 90's, which makes them over 20 years old by now. They are (not that) small, sol...

Review. I'm a bit on a Shaw run lately. This one I read in dutch. Disabled man saves the world from overly powerful extra-terrestr...