Wrapping up 2020, and Welcome to 2021! The image to the left takes you to the  home screen  which lists all major topics. To search this blo...

Datatalk  + Music Buy a CD in Germany on Amazon.de, and you can immediately download the DRM free MP3 rip of it. You can even buy it digital...

Writing  +  Reference A non-native English speaker runs into problems that may not be that obvious to a native speaker. To a native speaker,...

Column  + Writing How useful is online publishing? More specifically, will online platforms help you to become a (published) writer, help yo...

Writing Is there such a thing as 'writer's block'? I, honestly, have no idea. But sometimes I'm just stuck, and I found a fe...

Book Review Not only did Inverarity finish the fifth book of the Alexandra Quick series, there is now an audio book as well! Sam Gabriel is...

Anime Review Combine 'slice of life' with superpowers, heroic fights, add a dip of magic, and give it a little girl x girl x boy twi...

DIY  +  Dutch (Naar aanleiding van de defecte modules uit de WHR950 .) Ik heb twee SP-200-48's gekocht, eentje van Conrad, en eentje van...

Movie Review Is Vin Diesel salty because he's just a voice in the biggest Marvel / Superhero series? Perhaps. Let's hope he keeps vo...

Column / Dutch, Triest. Dat is het enige passende woord. De gemeente Capelle aan den IJssel houdt geen enkele rekening met bestaande bewoner...

DIY  +  Dutch Wat te doen met een Mean Well geschakelde voeding van 15 jaar oud, waar de ventilator van stuk is?

DIY + Domotics + Dutch In de handleiding van de nieuwere versies van de WHR950 staat een aansluiting voor een badkamer schakelaar beschreve...

Datatalk + Squeezebox I recently picked up another SqueezeBox touch, to replace my older, misbehaving unit. This stuff is getting old, with...

Datatalk / Excel. Symptoms: funny error messages, such as 'Cannot locate the Internet server or proxy server'. Cause: Excel (office)...

Writing You're an aspiring author. And your work just... sucks. Potential readers run away with polite excuses, and it seems they can...

Windows 10 / Brother MFC When you use Add printers & scanners then Windows scans your network for printers. Sometimes, if I install my ...

Column / Writing. I know the series' name will cause some dispute and raised eyebrows, but I still decided to use the 'concept' ...

Anime Review Painful, skip these. The live move with Scarlett Johansson was better, the two older anime movies and the original  Stand Alone...

Chrome is my favorite browser. It has an important place in my daily workflow, but by organizing things a little I save a couple of clicks o...

Column. Lacking motivation? Watch this. Never give up. Never fear to fail. And if you fall,  fall forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F...

Audiobook Review. A download, noticed too late it contained ‘adult scenes’. Would be a reasonable book, except for the sex scenes, and the e...

Audiobook Review. Third book in the  Revenger  series. In the same vein as the previous two, yet explaining a lot more, but I thought the fir...

Series Review Okay, a guilty pleasure. But anything Buffy-like easily piques my interest. Haven’t read the comics but I liked the show. Dead...

Movie Review / Audiobook Review. There's a movie, and there's a book. I've seen and read both. The movie wasn't too bad, alt...

Datatalk There are many complex and perfect ways to test your network speeds, but here are a few practical examples, that do not require a d...

Audiobook Review. Part-Time Gods and Night Shift Dragons are both nice, 'uppety' 'peppy reads'. Some action, some magic, so...

Gaming / PS4. Sometimes you cannot pair a PS4 Dualshock controller with your PS4 using a cable. Sometimes the Remote Play application on Win...

Datatalk + Bufferbloat This is an interesting (and very technical) subject, so skip it if you don't care 😇. Simply put, your router / ...

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

Anime Review Remember the old Bubblegum Crisis ? Well, here's the remake (which itself is also twenty years old), brought into a slig...

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...