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

... 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 new SS...

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, shiel...

Writing. I think I mentioned it before, but I'm mightily distracted by all this Corona stuff, health issues, and on top of that my work ...

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

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

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. However, r...

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

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

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

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. And...

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 abso...

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

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. The worl...

Windows 10. Thanks, Microsoft. For... for... for everything! But especially for cheating me out of all the hours I could have spend more ...

Book 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 Right...

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

Anime 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 ...

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

Writing. Part two is a wrap. Writing hasn't been going as quickly as I'd love to, but the good news is the overall plot is now clear...

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

Wrapping up 2019, and Welcome to 2020! The image to the left takes you to the  home screen  which lists all major topics. To search this blo...

Audiobook 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,...

Anime 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 ...

Book Review / Audiobook Review. Even before The Force Awakens heralded the return of Star Wars I decided to dip in and refresh and improv...

3D Printing. Define 'nerd'... If it's a person who enjoys an overly complex technical solution for a problem that doesn't ne...

3D Printing + DIY I still have some issues printing large objects on my (unheated) printer bed, but the final product is taking shape. W...

Book Review / Audiobook Review. In 2011 I was working on my 'classics' I guess... 😅 Let's see, Star Wars books ... what did ...

Anime Review. Seis Manos is nothing but glorious grindhouse anime. Let's go back to the 70's, and throw every exploitation / ...

3D Printing / Slicer and Printer Test. This isn't about the actual accuracy of the printer itself (which depends on build quality, desi...

Audiobook Review. I've been listening to some Star Wars audio books over the years... Some good. Most bad. The first two I read (lis...

Review. As every fan knows: the episode numbers don’t match the sequence in which these were made… we made it to episode VIII thus far. ...

DIY In civilized (Western) Europe 😇 we (tend to) have more reasonable presidents / prime ministers / monarchs, and we use the metric syste...

3D Printing  + Domotics +  DIY Long ago 😅 I said I was planning to design my own enclosure for a led driver and led controller. Of course,...

Series Review I've read some Cloak & Dagger comics in the past. With the current superhero craze there was no way Cloak & Da...

Review. Time to check out Vlad Taltos... I'm reading the books in chronological order, not the sequence Brust wrote them. At least t...

Review. The Halcyone Space  series now contains 4, no wait, 5 books. I noticed them earlier, but didn't pay much attention to them...

DIY  +  Domotics Well, actually they mess up  diagrams , but this title sounds better 😅 My Homematic CCU2 collects data and displays them i...

DIY  +  Domotics My house is using a centralized ventilation system (a  WHR950 ) with three operating modes. You're supposed (!) to swit...

Review. Shadow Captain is book two in the Revenger  series. The sequel to  Revenger . If the monniker YA (Young Adult)  applies to Reve...

Review. Another book in another series. YA, which is fine, but it suffers from an overdose of naivety. Unfortunately.

RPG Comparing different versions of a map of a fantasy world?!? Pretty useless, this, but hey! I always wanted to do this, so when I ...

Review. The first entry in what appears to be a very long series of romance / fantasy novels. Not sure yet how good or bad they are as a...

Domotica + Dutch De afgelopen weken was het heel warm in Nederland. Maar... wanneer is het nou handig om een raam open te zetten? Wanneer h...

Review. Thief steals a memory and tries to stop a murderer from killing all four queens. Okay but not exceptional.

RPG /  5e in NL  / Dutch. In 5e heb je attack rolls en skill / ability checks. Hiervoor gooi je een 1d20, en tel je eventueel een bepaalde w...

I am not a Linux expert and never will be. But this old Netbook that's gathering dust might just get a second chance at life, so I d...