Writing  +  Reference Source:  https://janefriedman.com/ Direct link:  https://janefriedman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Self-Publishing-C...

Series Review Oh dear.  Season 1  was promising, and had some interesting plotlines. An interesting ending. Lots of possibilities for a grea...

Series Review Just a single season, YA, and a bit tight on budget, yet quite promising. Unfortunately, there won't be a second season. I...

English:  Blogger is free, but a bit inflexible, so  I added some information to the 'about' pages. Dutch :  Blogger is gratis maar ...

Writing  +  Reference If your work uses any em-dashes (—) or ellipses (...) you may have considered the following conundrum: should you encl...

Series Review Are you old enough to remember the old  Addams' Family?  You might have seen one of the replays, or read any of the cartoo...

Writing I create and edit my covers in good ol' Photo Impact , with a dash of Krita on the side. I've shared this link in the past...

Writing I've updated immprep.exe, fixing two small bugs, and adding Word (.docx) support. Note that the command line parameters have cha...

Writing This is a follow-up to Book & Chapter Sizes . I found some information on the size of best selling books, and it seems they'...

Series Review Netflix has a habit of killing off promising fantasy series. Some barely make it past the first season, some get a few episode...

Column Elon Musk is still messing around with Twitter (aka the sewer of the Internet) and this time he has irked the user base by imposing l...

Amazon + Dutch Amazon is de grootste (online) boekhandel ter wereld, maar als Nederlandse gebruiker is niet altijd alles even duidelijk. Ee...

Formula 1 A few hours after the closure of the race in Austria (at the Red Bull ring) a number of drivers got additional time penalties, lea...

Movie Review Standard action flick with Jennifer Lopez as a former agent who went undercover to protect her newly born child, and has to pro...

Windows Why does Microsoft keep doing these things? My home server (a Windows 10 box) ran perfectly fine, and woke up when requested. And th...

Wallpaper Last month's wallpaper was a whopping 10kb, this one is actually the largest in my (small) collection, at 2.5 Mb. As usual I h...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. More covers from the Internet, trying to find a few good and bad example...

Audiobook Review  +  Movie Review "The Beloved Novel of Love, Friendship, Sisterhood and Magic". Right. They missed a single word ...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. I grabbed a few book covers from the Internet, trying to find a few good...

Audiobook Review You can't kill the dead. Well, it turns out you can.  With a bit of training. You know what's worse though than kil...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. I grabbed a few book covers from the Internet, trying to find a few good...

Column With Netflix continuing to increase their pricing, the offer of HBO Max looked pretty good... Who doesn't want a lifelong 50% dis...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. I grabbed a few book covers from the Internet, trying to find a few good...

Audiobook Review The first book was outstanding, so my hopes for the sequels were... limited. You know how that is, don't you? Great fir...

Book Review Can you imagine... I actually have 1000 issues of Perry Rhodan on my bookshelf. And I haven't even read most of them! Tha...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. So, I grabbed a few book covers from the Internet, trying to find a few ...

Series Review Peacemaker is completely silly, rude, irreverent, immature, and yet it’s fun. If you like foul-mouthed superhero stuff like  ...

Audiobook Review A Scifi story taking place in a single-star system (I think, it wasn't clear to me at first) where three different plan...

Series Review Disney has a lot of new Marvel series, and keeps adding to them. There’s Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki,...

Audiobook Review Good, typical space opera, but without the endless stupidities. Hey, that's something for a change! Although this is mi...

Wallpaper In the old days of echo-mail, and 14k4 modems, and Fido... ah... there once was an echo ('newsgroup') called SF.028. It wa...

Datatalk  +  Music  + Squeezebox Yes. Old technology, but it's still working. I have some issues lately, so I'm now trying to troubl...

Writing I've posted about this before, but wanted to show what can be done with some post processing. You'll find the online tool he...

Gaming If one doesn't have the license to the official names, then why not simply make up some? That's what EA Sports did in Japan, ...

Writing  +  Reference The following is a completely dishonest, biased, male-viewpoint, misogynistic, unfair and unhinged :-) approach to wri...

Wallpaper I bet this isn't the future Marty McFly had in mind when he boarded his DeLorean... Let's hope this never comes to pass......

Datatalk  + OBS + Virtual Webcam. WhatsApp doesn't support virtual cams, so to get OBS to work with WhatsApp on your PC takes a few ext...

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...

Gaming  +  Dutch Lui? Deze link zou rechtstreeks moeten werken... als de site sindsdien niet verandert is... https://www.playstation.com/nl-...

Writing Nightly endless writin' The daylight rarely sightin' Rewrite! Ignoring things that matter ... Read More...

Writing Once you've written something you want to publish it. There are too many predatory websites out there, that may or may not have ...

Writing. Questions you (never) want to answer as an author... The following came up on Discord on the Wattpad+ server: Q1. Who or what is th...

Writing / Datatalk / TTS. Well, it's not really that alien 😇 but I think this is my third post with TTS examples, and this time I'v...

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...

Writing / Datatalk / TTS. There are many TTS engines, web interfaces, and programs out there. But... some are quite expensive, others have p...

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...