Movie Review. Another typical disaster flick. The first half is actually fun, with airplanes flying between, under, and even through cru...

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

Writing. For (the yet unfinished and currently on hiatus)  Have Hat Will Travel  story I needed a single 'suspense' chapter because,...

Audiobook Review Scum. That's what the aliens are called. Horrible. That's what these books are. Sorry. Do. Not. Read.

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

Movie 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 ...

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 Not too bad though severely outdated, and sometimes loses the pace.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

Anime 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. No...

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

Book 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 t...

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

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

Datatalk / Windows 10 / Windows 11 / Multi Monitor. Use your tablet as an extra screen or input device for your PC, or as a sketchpad for me...

Book 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 ...

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  appear...

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

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

Writing. 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...

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

DIY  +  Domotics  +  Dutch Hoe koppel je LED verlichting? Of andere gelijkstroom spullen? Er zijn allerlei producten in de handel, maar somm...

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

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...