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Writing How do you pick the perfect title for your story, well... here's an attempt to set some basic rules and make it easier... (Warni...

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Writing. If you need to 'beef up' the story, for whatever reason, you might be able to use this recipe:

Writing  +  Reference I know nothing! Indeed I don't! You are absolutely right! So, here's a collection of links that are way better...

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Windows Notes to figure out what version of Windows you have, and what combos can be upgraded.

Writing  +  Reference This post is pretty much a rehash, but I just can't stress it enough: formatting, punctuation and spelling are mor...

Wallpaper I never could. I know as a wallpaper this one's excessively small. WallX makes it barely acceptable using either fade, or dots...

Datatalk  +  Touch Portal No matter how hard you try, sometimes Windows 11 doesn't let you push a window to the front. It can drive me n...

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Datatalk / Magix. Magix repacks and resells other products. Some of those are great ( Xara comes to mind) but Magix often manages to screw u...

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Datatalk. Here's a nice and troublesome one. When you use an external keyboard with a tablet, such as the Logitech K380 together with th...

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Movie Review Violence. Explosions. Dave Bautista. And a movie without a point. Not even much of a plot. I am completely unsure what to make ...

Column In one fell swoop Scott Adams pretty much killed his primary source of income: Dilbert. That's... sad. Not because I like Scott A...

Writing. I understand the worry and need for 'sensitivity readers' but I'd also worry about 'giving in' too much. You se...

Book Review Wintermoon  by Dean Koontz would make a good movie. As a book, it's just 'so...so...'. I can't recall the title ...

Audiobook Review Sandman Slim is everything Bobby Dollar tries to be... hardboiled, noir-styled, supernatural detective. It's moody, d...

Wallpaper. I have to believe Serenity is still flying... These are three wallpapers from one of my favorite SF series, Firefly . No matter w...

Audiobook Review I'm not entirely sure what attracts people in these books. Like the previous B.V. Larson books, there is something off ...

Series Review / Wallpaper. Farscape returned! Okay, that's a lie... but I'd love for it to happen. Say what? Farscape ? You didn...

Series Review. Back in 1995 I was staying in China, looking for something to watch on late-night Guangzhou television. Well, Hong Kong telev...

Column  +  Windows Nearly thirty years of progress... Did we make any? I compared the layout of the same app on old style Windows NT / 98 (X...

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Movie Review Maybe it's formally  not part of the MCU (as in being more of a Sony than a Marvel property) but hey, it fits nicely, and D...

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Countdown  +  Column Today's the last day of 2022, and another year has gone by. It's New Year's Eve, and one is supposed to ref...

Countdown  + Column The most popular page on this blog is the Rock Solid page . I've updated the information on other related models, as...

Countdown + Writing For a year I've been mostly at a kind of stand-still when it came to writing. It's not that I don't want t...

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Countdown  +  Column 745 days after I realized  Corona was for real, 703 days after what I theoretically estimated to be the most dangerous...

Countdown + Datatalk + Windows My old Asrock mainboard has a RealTek audio chip onboard. I have an old Labtec 4 channel amp with its own l...

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Countdown  +  Column It’s perfectly normal for a series to be cancelled when the ratings drop, and the number of viewers dwindle. It’s all a...