GPX  +  Travel  + Navigation Apps +  Dutch Wanneer je routes deelt met anderen, of routes van anderen gebruikt, is het belangrijk om de rou...

GPX  +  Travel  + Navigation Apps In my initial  turn by turn Android app search I found MRA Navigator to be the best. Tom Tom Go almost m...

GPX  +  Travel  +  Navigation Apps The MRA Navigator app (MRA Next? oh whatever) is thus far one of the few apps that passed my 'smart w...

GPX  +  Travel  +  Navigation Apps Obviously, there won't be something like 'the best' app, as everyone has a different goal and...

Travel  +  Navigation Apps Did you know Google Maps can use coordinates instead of addresses? And navigate between them? That's handy to...

GPX  +  Travel  +  Navigation Apps  +  Dutch Gisteren heb ik gekeken naar een aantal PC en online gebaseerde tools, en daar hoort natuurlij...

GPX + Travel + Dutch GPX (GPS eXport) files zijn log-bestanden / route-bestanden (in XML formaat) en worden vaak voor wandeltochten, fiets...

Audiobook Review Your typical, macho, space marine novel, but it's readable. The obligatory bootcamp scenes aren't overly extended, ...

Column  +  Wallpaper  + AI +  Dutch Zie de afbeelding hieronder, door iemand ergens 'gevonden' op het internet, en geplaatst op Lin...

Column +  AI See the image below, found by someone 'somewhere' on the internet, and placed on LinkedIn stating that AI would simpli...

Windows Why make things easy... You can only create links to .exe files now on Windows 11, but there's a way around that as well. It jus...

Datatalk Found on  LinkedIn . Click on image to enlarge. More cheat sheets ... (Maybe I should add some 😏)

Series Review  +  Shogun  + Disney+ It's 2024 now, and there's a new Shogun in town (excuse me the pun).  Shogun. I review a lot of ...

Music + YouTube The 1950 Typewriter  by Leroy Anderson is by itself unique and crazy. In 1963 Jerry Lewis used it in the movie Who's Mi...

Column + Dutch Nou ja, misschien niet de meest  gevaarlijke auto ooit... Die 'eer' gaat waarschijnlijk naar de Ford Pinto, de Mitsu...

Anime Review With four movies and a thirteen episode television series many of us must have caught at least a glimpse of Appleseed. Or at le...

Series Review How about diving into other people's minds... Could be fun, right? Here's the 'slip into someone's mind' 2...

Wallpaper  +  Dutch Deze is getekend door mijn dochter, en werkt geweldig als wallpaper op een telefoon, maar ook op een normaal scherm. Wil...

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...

Datatalk I needed to figure out what kind of USB-C cable I needed for a docking station, and then things got complicated really fast 😁 So, ...

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. ...