Yup, I’m not done yet…… not by a long shot! So here’s Step Three: Flightsim Plaza’s SimNews !! I jokingly mentioned in another place that I was getting bored already, not doing the simFlight news pages anymore. That’s partially true. I certainly do NOT miss the constant pressure of having to provide ‘news’ each and [...]
On first sight these two things have absolutely nothing in common. Correct. But what if I tell you that I was happily working on building my new FS News website, when Nina reminded me that the pile of wood in the third bedroom would start to rot if I didn’t get my sorry behind off [...]
Yeah, it’s that time of the year again… already. Nina is stuffing suitcases and bags full of clothes and food she bought, expecting me to cram it all in the Jeep once more. And then we’re off to our grueling 2-day ride East. Grueling because we still have the Jeep and that means driving slow [...]
Apparently the French politicians – like most of their counterparts all over the world – have nothing better to do than come up with anal retentive ideas. Recently one of them came up with the brilliant idea to forbid lane sharing by motorcycle riders. That means filtering in between (almost) stationary cars. The good man [...]
I guess this should go under ‘grumpy tales’, or at least the first part of my pondering. You see, here I am PAYING for some add-on scenery for once, just because I wanted to support some of my friends, and then I can’t download the thing because the publisher (or his dedicated retailer in this [...]
Do I really care where you send your messages to me from !? Did our ancestors waste space and paper by having their mail pigeons carry a message ".. sent from my Mail Pigeon….."???????? Is this annoying me just because it occupies extra space on my hard disks, makes me scroll further down than need [...]
Upon my very strongly worded message yesterday, I was surprised to find a one-liner in my mailbox this morning: "…. your pending image has been re-instated…". Good, so apparently it DOES help sometimes to get sincerely angry ! Next!
Yeah, you won’t see me angry quickly. I may be grumpy sometimes, but most of that is more out of fun than anything else. But these buggers have really done it now. I’ve been paying for a ‘Premium Site’ since 2002, that’s EIGHT YEARS. I figured I could make a few bucks of some of [...]
Now that I am getting more and more involved with doing business in China, of course such headlines draw my attention. Although I am sure that ‘human rights’ are sometimes ‘forgotten’ in athat vast country, I am equally sure that this is the case in more than half the countries on our globe. So I [...]
Is it the financial crisis – whatever that may be – that lures people into trying to sell every bit of crap around the corner? I doubt it. I think actually that it is the Internet that’s to blame. You see, ‘in the old days’ when you opened a shop to sell t-shirts printed with [...]
Journalism or Marketing? Not an interesting question for many of you, I am sure. Or maybe it is? Here’s my continuous dilemma, one that I face on a daily basis, and have done so ever since I started working for simFlight (and simMarket). Also one that I have so far managed to work with pretty [...]
Laying in bed with a terrible migraine headache this morning, and the news of yet another roadside bombing floating around somehow, I thought it was time for yet another Grumpy Tale. This one is about wasting lives and tax money…. I leave it up to you to decide which is more important. Camel [...]
Really, although I’ve been in the ‘computing business’ since 1978 and involved with PC’s (or microcomputers as they were called back then) before that, I could very often well do without the bloody things. We’ve all been there. A perfectly fine and proper working (Windows) PC suddenly won’t start in the morning. Eerie DOS error [...]
My good friend Miguel often calls me grumpy, a name that until recently I myself attached to quite a few people older than me. Since I am rapidly growing older myself, or so it seems of late, I guess I’m as grumpy as the next old guy. That is if you think 57 is old. [...]
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