Writing. I finally settled on a cover and a pen name. So now both my writing related websites are up-to-date. Unfortunately I haven't re...

Anime Review You'd be tempted to think I watch loads of anime... but I don't. These are old reviews I wrote over the years, most for...

Column / Writing. Do you remember good ol' typewriters? Man, the horror! 😣😂 I don't think there's anyone  who has good memorie...

Datatalk. The Xara Designer Pro software package is quite nice, and capable of incredible things. It never got the traction it deserved, and...

Movie Review Wanna' see something incredibly old? (No, it's not a picture of me 😄) Here's a very  old Fantasy / Supernatural / ...

Writing  +  Reference The optimal chapter size is driven by your audience and publication platform. The size of the book is just all those c...

Anime Review Revisiting the past... ever heard of Ranma 1/2? Boy meets girl, which appears to be just another fiancée. Credits to daddy. Gir...

Wallpaper. We had -17º degrees a few days ago... as in one real week of winter. I wonder if we'll ever see it again with all that global...

Anime Review Ten years ago or so Skyland  was showing on Dutch television. At the time I downloaded a few episodes, and noticed that the bro...

Anime Review I'm not into soccer much, but the anime series  Galactic Football  wasn't too bad. Though it wasn't too good either...

Column  +  Writing  +  Reference  + Mindmap Writing is hard. It's very hard. People have no clue how hard it actually is. Even writers t...

Writing  +  Reference Every writer has their own preference. For example, I prefer to write with empty lines instead of indents. (There are ...

Series Review. I’m in love. Not necessarily with Anna Taylor-Joy (who, frankly, is way easier on the eyes than I am 😂 even if deliberate ma...

Windows Windows 10  is pretty inconsiste nt when it comes to creating and pinning shortcuts. Here's some information if you need to pin ...

Windows 10. You can rename your Bluetooth devices under Windows 10 (1909 and 2004). But it's not obvious how to do it, and in some cases...

Wallpaper This month's dual monitor wallpaper features two James Cameron heroines. No points for those who recognize the movies 😁 Click...

Book Review. A typical (?) LitRPG, no tables, but it’s all about leveling and power, and boring as hell. It’s book 1 of the Cradle series, a...

Movie Review  + Disney+ I’m typically not into the horror genre, but this one a. was a gift from some online service, and b. is more action ...

Writing Writing is a lot of hard work, but can be a lot of fun and very rewarding. If you want to write, go ahead! But if you ended up here ...

Audiobook Review. Just started this YA (?) series, about an alternative reality in which a gun-slinging daughter tries to take down the demo...

Series Review. Finally. Redemption.  After the promising The Force Awakens came The Last Jedi , which was so bad I completely gave up on th...

Series Review. Better than I expected. I didn’t watch it when the first season was released, especially because season one had a cliffhanger...

Writing. Welcome in 2021! It's time to wrap up my first novel, but I could use a little more feedback, so... how about some critique swa...

Wallpaper. Some wallpapers are stranger than life... (Click the image to enlarge.) I believe wallpapers are an essential part of our day-to-...

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...