Audiobook Review + Zoe Hana Mikuta YA NA / FF / Post-apocalyptic / Mechas / First Person Present Tense. Love betrayal combat mechas. Can it...

3D Printing + The Long Road Peltiers are interesting things. Inefficient interesting things.

Series Review + Apple TV + Sugar Ah... What to make of this... Good, but...

3D Printing + The Long Road "I love it when a plan comes together." Yeah, so do I. But sometimes... It doesn't. So, here'...

3D Printing + Plate Lab With the P2S and X2D Bambu made some changes to the Aruco codes. I couldn't find a detailed description yet (an...

Audiobook Review + Xiran Jay Zhao Iron Widow is the first part of a duology / trilogy / series (?) with the same name. It describes Wu Zet...

3D Printing + Plate Lab In modern day 3D printers you have a lot of choice in build plates, filaments, temperatures, speeds, making it almo...

Windows Sometimes Windows 11 is sooooooo annoying. Place a link to a webpage on your desktop... works. Drag it to the taskbar... can't p...

Datatalk Jellyfin is a free alternative for Plex (and as you may have noticed Plex has gotten a little top heavy lately). Unfortunately, the...

Wallpaper With the temperature outside rising and rising (we passed 35 yesterday) I present you a matching (dual monitor) wallpaper... (Clic...

Audiobook Review + Adrian Tchaikovsky The third installment in the series, and (at first) very confusing, but in the end it all makes sense...

Series Review + Apple TV + Sugar Season one episode one. Very weird, but I love it. I've just finished episode one, and... this is wei...

Audiobook Review + Adrian Tchaikovsky Book 2 in the Children of Time series. I'm probably one of the few who hasn't completed the ...

Frankenblocks  +  Concept It's time to settle on a specific module size, and decide how a default 'baseplate' should look like.

Audiobook Review + Amie Kaufman First person, present tense, YA. romance / science-fiction. Classic recipe, and typical Amie Kaufman. But.....

Frankenblocks + Concept We settled on Lego (or the Lego dimensions and stud concept) as the basis for our own STEM system, and I've nam...

Wallpaper Just a pretty picture... Looks great on (very) large screens. (Click on image to enlarge.)

Frankenblocks  + Concept So, I decided to create my own STEM system. Step number one was the decision to adapt and adopt Lego bricks. Step n...

Windows After an update, I was suddenly left with a 500 GB hidden folder on drive O: (this is my Drivepool storage machine), and I couldn...

Audiobook Review Love. Life. And zombies. This is a YA first person present tense audiobook exploring the 'I died and came back as a zom...

Amazon KDP  +  Writing Today I saw a commercial for a tool that would auto-generate complete books. Including all chapters, text, graphics, ...

Amazon KDP  +  Writing My 'to do' list for publishing something on Amazon KDP, including links to sources or sub-posts, whereever re...

Audiobook Review The third and final book of this trilogy. That, by itself, was a bit of a surprise, as these books had all the hallmarks of...

Wallpaper Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel has quite the voice, and the band has quite the reputation, but at first I didn't even...

Audiobook Review This... is a weird one. Take some dark, gothic fantasy elements, combine it with a family drama and a self-apreciating voic...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks A very simple small flat plate 2x4x1, marked with the 'Frankenblocks' logo. Nothing special, but it ha...

Datatalk Especially not pinouts! I have multiple modular PSUs in use, and a box full of cables matching these PSUs. You'd expect some  f...

Audiobook Review Book 1 of the Passenger series, in which the heroine is kidnapped from her own time (our time) and - obviously - travels th...

Windows I've updated the old page with some new entries. Go here.

Audiobook Review Faith Hunter (better known for her Romantasy stories) does a pretty good (Scifi) Apocalyptic series of novellas, all titled...

Frankenblocks How to combine Lego with other bits and pieces, including electronics. Here are the results of my search for 'competitors...

Wallpaper Just another random wallpaper... (Click on the image to enlarge)

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This is a  Frankenblocks  baseplate designed for Lego Technic. You can find the model on  Makerworld .

VirtualBox  +  Windows VirtualBox has a few more options in its latest incarnation, and a few defaults are different from previous releases....

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This is a  Frankenblocks  baseplate designed for Lego Technic. You can find the model on  Makerworld .

VirtualBox  +  Windows Symptom: stuck at 10% when installing Windows 11 Guest on Windows 11 Host in VirtualBox. Solution: lots of small thin...

VirtualBox  +  Windows Situation: You're running out of diskspace in a Windows client. Increasing the size in VirtualBox seems to work, ...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks Your most basic Lego compatible building block, the 'Hello World' equivalent in the 3D printing buildi...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This is the basic building plate I use for my Frankenblocks system. You can find the model on Makerworld . A c...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks This piece is used in the  FB-10000-x Calibration package . You can find that package on Makerworld .

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks These objects can help you calibrate your printer. This should make it easier to print Lego compatible blocks,...

3D Printing  +  Frankenblocks Combining Lego and 3D printing shows again how much engineering went into those stupid little Lego bricks. I c...

Wallpaper Some of my wallpapers are just color themed, or relaxing, funny, or have a kind of special meaning. And sometimes I just want to e...

3D Printing + Frankenblocks Skiddle Skedaddle. Return of the Skiddler. Well, arrival of the Skiddler, at least. This is going to be my big ...

3D Printing When3D printing objects, you may encounter crimp / shrinkage, when the material cools down. Where to adjust these parameters in ...

Wacom +  Windows (Mostly notes for myself.) I'm using an old Wacom with some old and new software. These are notes on how to set up and...

Wacom +  3D Printing  +  DIY One of those things where there is no good solution, except ordering a new cable... because Wacom decided to p...

OBS  +  Windows I'm writing this new OBS install post, as newer releases use different options, and things were getting a little confusi...

3D Printing  +  Plate Lab Not all cold plates are created equal. And many are simply not cold plates at all. Here's a comparison between...

Datatalk I'm not a data hoarder (well, a bit, perhaps) but I like to keep stuff locally, so I have a few larger drives, and you know wha...