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Monthly Archive July, 2015

Review: Prince Lestat

What must be stated clearly from the beginning is that, after many years and wrong turns, Anne Rice is back, and so is Lestat. Of course, those who expect the exact same Lestat they initially grew to know, from The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, may be disappointed, but in the end […]

Switching to Trend Micro and Finishing Age of Wonders

With the trial period expiring, last night I uninstalled AVG AntiVirus 2015 and installed Trend Micro Antivirus+, which seems to have gone well enough so far, in terms of not causing any noticeable problems. However, I can say right away that, while it seems to have a lower constant impact on performance than others despite […]

Sunday Update After Finishing Prince Lestat

Yes, I finished Prince Lestat yesterday, but didn’t make the quick review for it this week’s second post. That’s because I’ve been trying to figure out how to fit what I mean to say about it into about 300 or, at the very most, up to 400 words, which would be as far as I […]

Physical and Mental Tools

Earlier this month, after exchanging a few messages with someone and then going to take a shower, I ended up posting a small stream of shower thoughts on Facebook. The idea was just to post this quickly somewhere, while I could still remember how to put at least the general idea into words, and then […]

Finally at Pluto

As everyone should most definitely know, NASA‘s New Horizons spacecraft successfully flew by Pluto on July 14. As such, with Dawn also at Ceres since March, 2015 is the year when humanity first explored not only its first but its first two dwarf planets, or possibly the first three if you consider Charon‘s situation. This […]