Just visit this page. It's simply fun (and impressive and educational, but who cares)... https://neal.fun/space-elevator/  

Datatalk  +  Touch Portal Though Touch Portal has its own backup mechanism and you can use that to share settings it does take a few clicks ...

Movie Review  + Netflix J-Lo and Netlifx at it again. After the by-the-numbers (but still watchable)  The Mother here's another Lopez f...

Travel  +  Dutch Zoals gewoonlijk is dit blog vooral voor eigen gebruik 😁 Ik ben een road trip aan het voorbereiden. Portugal... of toch na...

Car  +  MX-5 Mods4Cars SmartTop controllers have been around for quite some time. Exemplary of that are the type of connector used (who uses...

Audiobook Review 3 books by a debuting author. The series contains three books, and they're... cheap. Yeah. Literally, I mean. (Discount...

Car  +  MX-5  + Atoto Head Unit I opted to take out the Bose head unit from my MX-5 (Miata) and replace it with an Atoto. These are my trial...

Car  +  MX-5  +  Atoto Head Unit When possible I try to understand what I'm doing, and why. That doesn't always work out 😏 but at l...

Car  +  MX-5  +  Atoto Head Unit There are many instructional (?) videos on the Internet that show you how to remove and install a new head ...

Car  +  MX-5  +  Atoto Head Unit The MX-5 is a great car, but the radio Mazda put in isn't very impressive. So I decided to replace mine...

Travel Overpriced hotels and tourists everywhere. Vacations can be so stressful, especially during the summer months.  You may simply have n...

Datatalk  + Subtitles I bought the original set of Farscape DVDs, only to find out they have no Dutch subtitles. Bummer. Online I found seve...

GPX  +  Travel I've tried both the MyRoute-app and Tom Tom Go, and they both had their own idiosyncrasies. Time for Kurviger. This is an...

GPX  +  Travel  + GPSBabel I made an earlier reference to GPSBabel . It's a tool to 'fool around' with some .GPX files. There is...

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...