Column / RPG. 6E is upon us. Or  One D&D , although there's still little to be found on the  WOTC page . Nevertheless... we go full ...

Audiobook Review The gods will walk the earth. Quite literal. A more realistic fantasy (is there such a thing) about a kingdom that struggle...

Series Review. Rosario Dawson is becoming one of my favourite actresses. She played ‘the nurse’ in the Netflix' Marvel series, an older ...

Audiobook Review. Ah, good stuff. The final book of the trilogy. Isoka and her princess / lover return to Isoka’s home city Kanzhoka to resc...

Writing / Datatalk / TTS. Balabolka is a simple TTS (Text To Speech) tool that can help authors with proofreading and editing their work. Wo...

Audiobook Review. Alex Sheppard ( https://www.facebook.com/authoralexsheppard/ ) hasn't been very active since 2018, or so it seems afte...

Wallpaper This is one of those wallpapers that only means something to me (and a few former employees of a data center company in Amsterdam)...

Audiobook Review. Django Wexler is rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors. After the Wells of Sorcery  series (I still have to add the ...

Music / Datatalk I haven't been able to find a good explanation (and there might be a better way to do it) so here's what I do... I...

Gaming. It's not a popular controller, but hey, if you have one, why not (try to) use it? These steps are based upon the text on the Val...

Datatalk / Kodi. Want to use your Nvidia Shield or Google Chromecast with Google TV (what a horrible name) to play back files from a home (W...

Audiobook Review. Brandon Sanderson has become a well-known and popular author, and yet I've read little by his hand. In fact, only Skyw...

Datatalk  +  Bufferbloat  + Ziggo Ziggo increased their bandwidth again ( and their pricing, let's not go there ) so I checked my QoS ba...

Datatalk  +  Ziggo  + Dutch Ziggo kondigde een (kleine) snelheidsverhoging aan. En bij Ziggo betekent dat simpelweg dat de prijzen ook verho...

Audiobook Review. Each book that starts with a 'school' or 'academy' threatens to become yet another Harry Potter clone. Tha...

Audiobook Review. The cover suggests a fantasy novel, and yeah, it is. Raine Benaris is a seeker (a combination of sleuth / retriever / arti...

Datatalk  +  Ziggo  +  Dutch Als je meerdere TV's in huis hebt wil je ook graag op allemaal TV kunnen kijken. Dat gaat echter niet altij...

Wallpaper. This dual-screen wallpaper works better on two similar-sized screens (I'm currently running a dual monitor setup with two dif...

Audiobook Review. With masturbation being a (minor) theme, some drug (ab)use, a dysfunctional family and paranormal gifted people this book ...

Audiobook Review. A SciFi novel whose main mechanism borders on Fantasy. It's a fair read, in which a historian hunts for automata / aut...

Datatalk  +  Touch Portal Sometimes you want to launch another application from within TouchPortal, and it simply won't work, or behave ...

Datatalk  +  Touch Portal  + OBS Lots of overly long explanations on YouTube. Here's my approach to backup / migrate OBS and TouchPortal...

Audiobook Review. Two typical Schooled in Magic novels, both relative short, and the plot meanders a bit without going anywhere. I fear Nutt...

Book Review. A short story featuring Dire, in line with Dire Born . That one's better though...

Windows 10. Batch file to remove some protocol handlers that might be used for zero day exploits (uncomment as required).

Column I'm not a boomer. It's a close call, but a boomer I am not. However I strongly dislike  the term. It's not used as a grou...

I guess I saw too many episodes of the X-Files when I was young 😌 (Click to enlarge.)  All Wallpapers thus far...  

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....