Audiobook Review. Scifi with a dash of body horror, and yet another story that is hard to describe. In some far away future humanity is fema...

Audiobook Review. Although this is the first book in a series, it's also a perfect standalone. It's a dark fantasy, medieval when it...

Movie Review The 2012 movie Dredd  has no right to be entertaining, and yet it is. Also, it may be one of the few movies that's actually...

Writing  +  Reference On a computer, you typically use 'straight quotes', whilst in (real) books you mostly find 'curly quotes...

Writing. There are many sites that can do this. Here's just another one producing 3D cover mockups... When reading through the small pri...

Audiobook Review. 16 y.o. girl orphan has dragged herself out of the gutter, and now works as a courier. When she is asked to deliver a pack...

Audiobook Review. Street orphan fights her way up to local ward boss, and has managed to hide her magical talents from the rest of the world...

We had some angels last month, so let's add another one... (Click image to enlarge.)

Writing. I have absolutely no idea if this post is going to be useful in any way 😊 but I was revising the novel I'm working on, and try...

Review. Discontinued on NBC, continued on Netflix. A bit similar to Lost , but Lost never did it for me. Thus far, the first two seasons of...

Audiobook Review. Another take on Ready Player One, another love song to the eighties. Well written, but frankly I find this new take on th...

Audiobook Review. Definitely (?) an indie writer, and one who isn't afraid to use real people, like Obama and Musk, as characters in his...

Audiobook Review. Mister Harbinger (a blend of Philip Marlowe and Harry Dresden) finds out what actually happened in Paris, discovers his da...

Wallpaper 2 for 1... Angels are mostly girly stuff, but hey! I have a few in my wallpaper collection as well.  Read on...

Audiobook Review. I recently watched the first two seasons of Manifest , and this book starts in a similar vein: an airplane that departs, o...

Audiobook Review. A displaced mind (transplanted from a human body into a spaceship’s central computer) is part of a salvage team, and tries...

Audiobook Review. A ‘reverse world’ novel, where the men are rare, and thus valuable. It isn’t bad, but there’s little new in there except f...

Audiobook Review. Space Opera / Military SF, but with one twist: no artificial gravity thus far, which has a lot of impact on the scenes in ...

A mural my youngest daughter and I painted. For more information see here . (Click on the image to enlarge.)

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...