One of the more bizarre news stories I’ve read in a long while surfaced today when it came out that tobacco smoking has been banned in Dutch cafes and restaurants, but marijuana is still okay.
I’m half Dutch, but the country today is nothing like the one my mother and grandparents left in the 1950s.
I’m not [...]
It’s remarkable that you can store a computer operating system on a USB stick and boot from it. I’ve known this for a while, but only tried it for the first time today and I’m impressed.
The distro I’m using is MCNLive, codename Jordaan. It’s based on Mandriva and comes from The Netherlands. The download was [...]
Wilbur Smith is a master storyteller. He has the rare gift of making every word count, and Blue Horizon is no exception.
I love the way that Smith maintains the pace throughout his novels. There is no slackening; no time to draw breath; and at no time does the flow slow to a trickle.
Blue Horizon, first [...]
