Yes, I’m back. And in France again, yippeee…! But what was meant to be the second half of our holidays, became a nightmare because of a tiny and untypical mistake by yours truly. I clicked on a link in a fake email, and attracted a trojan viurs from Russia. Although I saw it immediately, computers [...]
Todd Bishop, a reporter writing on Techflash, called me the other day to talk about the cascade Games Foundry and the loss of Flight Simulator. I just found his published article and you can read it here. I still have very mixed feelings about the CGF initiative and from everything I’ve read it doesn’t seem [...]
…of the re-invention has been made. In the form of yet a new attempt at setting up my own webshop. And although it proved to be cumbersome (what else is new) it seems to be running and functioning now, ON a new server too. I have put the also new Gloster Gladiator for FSX up [...]
First thing to change had to be my old Silver Cloud Publishing web site. It was the first ever WordPress site I made and I hadn’t changed it from its default orange ‘theme’ since I made it. There wasn’t much to read on it either. So it got changed. I designed a brand new [...]
Oh yes, after another grueling 4000 km drive we’re safely back home. Grueling not so much because of bad roads – actually, they have greatly improved in Romania – but more because of the years creeping upon us and we simply can’t deny that things are getting harder. Where we happily drove 2400 km’s to [...]
Our friend Kenny Simon lost his job in a similar way I did a a few years ago, after many years of loyal work. He too decided to start his OWN business instead of trying to work for another thankless company again and he now opened his motor service and repair shop. I made him [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since not many people read here, I can safely list some of the projects I am currently working on….. And yes, as usual for me, not enough hours in a day! Oh, that picture on the left? Check out the list below….. I have a few irons in the fire so to speak. The top [...]
…. or ‘programs I discovered, use(d) and like(d) over the years’. I was ‘doing the rounds’ this morning, like any morning, checking email, simFlight, forums, competitors and stats, and thought that some of the programs I use almost daily might be interesting to you too? So here are a few links to stuff I like: [...]
Furniture stores, that is….. you remember my post about the endless square miles of furniture shopping ?? Well, I am happy to report that 2 nights ago at least one of the horrible stores burnt down. And no, I had nothing to do with it. Not that this one was on our list. They only [...]
Yes, that’s right, a conspiracy to get us to be totally unproductive….. at the very least! Just not sure yet who is really behind it. A few decades ago I would have said ‘the communists’, but apart from a few ‘luxury communists’ there’s not many of them left. I think the North Koreans can be [...]
We returned home in Holland late last night after almost 15 hours on the road. Pretty leisure but very HOT drive (we left the motorbike behind for our second part of the trip in a few weeks). We ran into trouble in Belgium where we met traffic jams in three places, costing us at least [...]
My dear FS friends (you know who you are), before you climb into your writing pens let me tell you, this is MY opnionated article and you’re not going to change my opinion. Period. <vbg>. This weekend saw an enormous increase in hits on my FSAddon website !! So obviously I got curious and looked [...]
Well, not being a specialist, but loving birds of prey, I THINK this is a buzzard. There’s a pair of them and they come and visit most every day. I took out the 300 mm in my shaky hands and made a few pictures of them. We have a pair of ravens here too ! [...]
Since I’ve discovered Facebook, and became addicted, I am neglecting some of the other writing efforts. Among which is my blog, sadly. On the other hand I sometimes don’t know what to write and then won’t write. Simple. And effective. Let me collect some of the things that I FB’d about the past week, in [...]
One of the curses of modern-day Internet and computers is that there is TOO much information and too many places to uphold it seems. Or maybe the problem is simply that I am such a nosy guy and like to try everything and anything. *grin*. Whatever the issue, fact is that I have been spending [...]
After seeing more and more mail.ru, list.ru and other fake users registering at my blogs, I decided to change the registration process. So as of today you need my explicit approval to become a registered user at this (and other) blogs. More work for me, longer wait for users, but can’t be helped. Thank all [...]
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