Audiobook Review. I’ve been searching for more first-person present tense material to understand what I’m doing right and wrong myself. This...

Audiobook Review. The fourth book in the Mindspace   series, and again a very good one. I’ve read two short stories by his (her?) hand that ...

Audiobook Review. Semi post-apocalyptic setting with a strong romantic vibe. Falls a little flat because it’s not as post-apocalyptic as sug...

Movie Review Subtitled The Last 49 Days, it’s the modern day equivalent of  A Matter of Life and Death ). This isn't a bad movie either....

Decent 3-screen wallpapers are a little harder to come by. Someone assembled this one by copy / pasting to their heart's content. When y...

I must have been in my 'anime' phase at the time (all geeks suffer from such an epoch during their life). This wallpaper is a remnan...

Wrapping up 2021, and Welcome to 2022! The image to the left takes you to the  home screen  which lists all major topics. To search this blo...

Writing This is probably my last post this year, but who knows what can happen in the next seven hours 😁 So, let's work on the average ...

Datatalk  + Chrome Google Chrome has profile support, allowing you to use different 'identities' when browsing the web. A practical ...

Datatalk + Touch Portal Touch Portal and OBS Studio are the (low cost) alternative to Elgato's Stream Deck and other Elgato solutions. ...

Writing  +  Reference Every writer has a different approach to writing and editing. Every successful writer is probably going to tell you ed...

Datatalk + Dutch Corona en kerstdagen... Wil je mekaar toch een keer zien dan zijn er allerlei oplossingen, zoals mondkapjes, hazmat pakken...

Writing  +  Reference You've finished your novel, and now comes the dreaded part... the editing. Here are some of the things to look out...

Writing  +  Reference Many beginning writers understand the concept of present and past tense, but fail to properly apply it. They 'mix...

Writing  +  Reference There are no stupid questions. Only lazy authors 😎 The same questions show up time and time again, on Discord and in ...

Wallpaper Nothing better than a morning wood... I mean, the woods in the morning... This is a digital rendering of an early morning forest, ...

Datatalk  +  Touch Portal Touch Portal is a low-cost alternative to the Stream Deck. Here's a little example on how to cycle through dif...

Wallpaper For your inner Zen a dual monitor wallpaper. (Click to enlarge.) More wallpapers...

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...