Audiobook Review Another space opera, and unfortunately it fails in the typical areas of science and logic. The story might have been a lot ...

Audiobook Review Last year I was (trying to) do a review per week, and haven't kept to my schedule when 2024 started... So, let's us...

Windows In the past you could install Windows 11 with a local account. These days? Not so. You MUST create a Microsoft Account to install Wi...

Windows My deepest apologies for the choice of words, but today was one of those days where I have been literally  yelling at my computer sc...

Dutch In veel landen is ontslag de gewoonste zaak van de wereld. Maandag ben je aan het werk. Dinsdag verteld je baas dat je kunt gaan, en W...

DIY  +  Ikea Ikea has a new (?) product called a 'door', also known under the catchy nominator '104.530.72' 😎 Actually, the...

Review  +  DIY If this was a review my advice would be: don't buy. Sorry, JBL, but you screwed up. The headphone itself is nice, *mostly...

Wallpaper  +  Dutch Soms is een simpele wallpaper alles wat je nodig hebt, zoals deze waterdruppels voor een dual-monitor setup. Klik op de ...

RPG My old Secomber maps were scanned 20 years ago, using a handscanner. It was about time I rescanned them , especially after finding other...

RPG 20+ years ago I created some maps for Secomber, a small town in the Forgotten Realms. I didn't pick the place at random. I selected ...

Datatalk + Chrome I like to differentiate my Chrome profiles by different tab colors, but the 'Chrome 2023 Refresh' enforced pastel...

Series Review Outdated. Old fashioned. Geeky, nerdy, cult. And yet, in some ways, this old one season series is lots of fun. Sidney Bloom is...

Anime Review It’s based on a computer game, but it has (fortunately) little to do with the game (besides borrowing characters and background...

Wallpaper I wrote about A Scientific Railgun  some time ago, and here's the matching wallpaper. (If you understand the concept, this ima...

Series Review  + Apple TV I haven’t read the Hugh Howey novels this series is based upon, but this first season was highly enjoyable to watc...

Wrapping up 2023, and Welcome to 2024! The image to the left takes you to the  home screen  which lists all major topics. To search this blo...

Countdown + Writing The final tip on the final day of 2023 is very straightforward and way too obvious: write a lot. Write some more. Read ...

Countdown  +  Writing Shock yourself and your reader. What's the most exotic, outrageous thing your character would do? Would he / she r...

Countdown  + Writing In general I don't see much use for extensive character sheets. I even tend to skip as much of world building as I ...

Countdown  +  Writing Don't overthink. Or from a broader point of view: don't brood. Don't whine. Don't worry. Advice is wha...

Countdown  +  Writing We're past Christmas, and a couple of days away from New Year's Eve. And so I think it is time to combine math...

Datatalk Goodie. There are so many (good) video codecs these days that it is hard to pick one... Or not? There are some very decent explanat...

Countdown  +  Writing Use a (real) keyboard. Don't write on your phone. Instead, use a real keyboard (and a real screen). A tablet (with...

Countdown  +  Writing You're stuck. In the countdown to 2024 I'm sharing a bunch of the most obvious tips with the poor victims that...

Writing  +  Book Review After Janice Hardy's Plotting Your Novel I had to get this one as well, as it has a great reputation and address...

Countdown + Writing  +  Wallpaper Tip number 8 is so obvious that it hurts. And it hurts doubly so, because it effectively means that you h...

Countdown  +  Writing Actually, it's nine hints before the end of the year, but this sounds better 🤔😁 Matt asked me for nine tips... H...

Audiobook Review Books about libraries will always have a special place in the SF / Fantasy reader’s heart. In most novels featuring librari...

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Writing  +  Book Review I've recently bought some books to become a better writer, and some of those were Janice Hardy's. At 300 pag...

Writing I strongly believe there is no such thing as 'writer's block' . (I do believe in procrastination though.)  But if there ...

Audiobook Review A hardboiled detective / supernatural investigator femme fatale, doing her thing in Sin City? Promising… Or, perhaps, not. ...

Datatalk  +  Dutch Je zou een ton apps verwachten, welke allemaal claimen dat ze je helpen je monitor te kalibreren... Maar nee. En de paar ...

Datatalk  + Multi Monitor You'd expect to find tons of apps that would claim to aid in monitor calibration, but there aren't that ma...

Wallpaper Symbology aside (right) the BattleStar Galactica wallpaper is a great 2h wallpaper. (Click on the image to enlarge.)

Writing  +  Book Review Janice Hardy is a Fantasy author, and runs the Fiction University website / blog. Her blog is a source of interestin...

Book Review Highly spoken of, 'a classic', and yet... I don't know. It's epic scifi allright. Kim Stanley Robinson describes...

Audiobook Review This series is literally using ‘imagination’ as the primary magical means and method. It has some interesting aspects and i...

Music I suffer from an old time music revival, and now I'm stuck in the 70's. So let’s throw a classic at you: Boston’s debut album ...

Audiobook Review Space Opera by the numbers. So many books follow the traditional ‘captain down on his luck’ ‘fight against a secret force an...

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Audiobook Review Post apocalyptic YA with great concepts that becomes a little too far-fetched in the latter half of the third book. Concept...

Writing Simple, step by step instructions on how to maintain indents for regular text, as set in Word. In a nutshell: you need to set the in...

Music Yeah, that’s a song, not a book 🤔 Although the original was performed by Fred Astaire in the musical The Sky’s the Limit , and the be...

Datatalk Some newer drives use SMR instead of CMR recording. Unfortunately, manufacturers are not clear when they are using SMR technology. ...

Column  + Book Reviews I’m alternating between two fantasy / romance series, Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock and Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thom...

Book Review A somewhat humoristic horror (?) read. The main characters are 'british at all costs', featuring a paranormal gifted you...

Writing On  https://myindiebookshelf.com/ I ran into Lawrence Nault. Who is... real? Or not? When I see an AI generated or otherwise modifi...

Series Review Limitless  (the series) is more enjoyable than I expected (probably appeals to me because of the main character and his voice ...

Audiobook Review Trying to learn more about romance novels, I dipped my toes into the ‘Jane Yellowrock’ series. I think this is the second o...