Audiobook Review Simple one shot stories, with sword wielding Anjaa bashing another few heads. I do hope to see some recurring characters, s...

Datatalk + Multi Monitor Multi-monitor setups are fun 😁  Use an old laptop or tablet an additional monitor? Not a problem, and with SpaceD...

Book Review Let's start with a spoiler. Anjaa is an historian / archaeologist, orphan, and wielder of Joan d'Arc's sword. So, wi...

Datatalk  + WallX To show what this little tool does I decided to create a little video. Which was a little more complicated than expected, ...

Movie Review Three 'direct to TV' movies. What can I say... Frank Grillo does his thing, and the monsters are nice. Everything else ...

Datatalk  +  Touch Portal I like Touch Portal but found the conversion of .ico to something Touch Portal can understand a pain, so I modifie...

Datatalk  +  WallX Well, nothing's ever completely  done but WallX now runs smoothly and hasn't crashed on me yet. I've worked o...

Datatalk  + OBS OBS is a nice tool, but it's more focused on streamers (seriously? 😁) than other types of users. I like OBS. I use it t...

Datatalk + Jog Shuttle Of course you can buy a Stream Deck. They're actually quite nice and are great to use. Or you could use some sof...

Audiobook Review Just like Christopher Nuttall, Bella Forrest is sometimes accused of plagiarism. I think that's not entirely fair, beca...

Datatalk  +  WallX Another day, another update. But I think it's a good one... No, a great one 😁 WallX is no longer merely a wallpaper ...

Wallpaper Guild Wars 2 may have better graphics, better monsters, better frenemies, more content, easier skillsets (not sure if that's a...

Anime Review Remember both Pacific Rim  movies? Well, here's an anime series set in the same universe, which isn't that bad. The ani...

Datatalk  +  Google Maps This isn't  entirely  confirmed yet... I'm still testing this, but thus far it seems to work. If you lose y...

Datatalk  +  Waitwindow This is a little command line tool I wrote to help me check from a batch file for windows which are open or closed. ...

Datatalk  +  Google Docs + Grammarly I noticed that, sometimes, GoogleDocs suddenly slowed down. It looks like the culprit is Grammarly. Th...

Audiobook Review A little trilogy about a paranormally gifted (created?) telekinetic in a far away future. At roughly 220 pages per book the...

Audiobook Review Another supernatural PI series. How many are there by now? Never enough 😁 Harbinger PI  and The Dresden Files  have a lot ...

Movie Review I'm trying my utter best to like this movie, but that's because I like Nicolas Cage. In this B - direct for TV - movie ...

Datatalk  +  WallX WallX has seen another update. Changes: some internal fixes for better image series handling, better wallx.lst support, W...

Datatalk  +  Multi Monitor I've been a big fan of multiple monitor setups, ever since NVidia put two or more video outputs on their card...

Music  + Wallpaper There's nothing like a decent bawl, by the un-imitable Meat Loaf.  Perhaps his voice falters in his later works, but ...

Movie Review Should I spend even time on describing this? I actually like the cast, but the aliens are plastic / rubber-suits, and the movie...

Book Review I got this one bundled together with Marion Zimmer Bradley's Seven from the Stars in an Ace double. I did read this one b...

Writing Tom Gauld knows it all. -  His homepage - Cartoons on The Guardian Read more...

Movie Review This is one of those movies that I know  I should enjoy, and still I found myself fast forwarding the latter half. That's.....

Book Review Starts like a pulp action story. Stays that way most of the time. Ends a bit too easily. In general I would call it 'Keith...

Movie Review I  know  he does it for the money, but Bruce,  please ... You can do better. So, what do we have here? A simple Scifi / Horror ...

Wallpaper I have nothing to add... (Click on the image to enlarge.) More wallpapers...

Book Review More old stuff dating back to the golden era, this is the second part of an Ace 'Double', a pocket containing two nove...

Audiobook Review I love my cheap, macho military / action / adventure SF. And because dumb books are easy to digest whilst doing something e...

Audiobook Review Let's start with the verdict... Though it's a four book series, the first two are a very decent two-book set. And a...

Audiobook Review There's a whole subset of romance novels in fantasy settings, which all seem to follow a certain pattern. This is one o...

Wallpaper I edited one of the images I found on https://www.collectedcurios.com/ and modified it a bit to make it a better wallpaper. Lunch...

Audiobook Review If you like romance and  fantasy, Helen Harper must be somewhere on your bookshelf. Nevertheless, she does  write light, bu...

Audiobook Review An interesting premise (five million kids were sold into slavery to protect earth) takes an interesting route (let's ge...

Audiobook Review Military SF is a guilty pleasure of mine. Let's read another one... Today, that's  Confrontation  by Nathan Hystad....

Anime Review Yeah, I know. Lot's of old anime lately. Hyperpolice . Starts of as a comedy, but does introduce some more moral points o...

Wallpaper. It's summer, and life and work are changing yet again. The future is... unclear. It's a good thing I'm not the only o...

Audiobook Review. Strange... I'm pretty sure I've read some of his work, but I cannot recall a single title. Oh well... I had totall...

Series Review. Amanda Tapping takes care of 'abnormals'. Innocent young man ends up protecting supernatural beings. Some evil machin...

Writing  +  Reference (This is a follow up to  Book And Chapter Sizes ) Do you need chapters, and is chapter size related to reading speed? ...

Series Review. I never saw all episodes of B5 thus far, so I'm watching them now. (But I realise that I saw quite a few, to be honest.)...

Writing. Why and how I keep track of events in my own stories... no matter how bad they are 😁 This is a sequel to The Retro Plotter part 1 ...

Writing  +  Reference Plotters plot, pantsers invent on the spot. I'm a bit in between. Yes, I plot a bit, but I also make up things as ...

Windows 10. Symptom 1: WOL tools no longer work after installing VirtualBox. Symptom 2: SqueezePlay no longer works but SqueezeLiteX does. S...

Series Review. Continuum  wrapped up. It could have used a few more episodes, but this was all they got. So, what do we have here? Time trav...

Column. One of the more curious side effects of this whole Corona mess is a loss of sense of time. We've been locked in our homes, stuck...

Writing  +  Reference Solve prompts for short stories, work out mini-plots for your chapters, avoid (stupid) mistakes, and expand your chapt...

Writing. You can turn any 'prompt' into a short story, and it's worth doing so. At least to try to, now and again. All it needs ...