Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Dec 30th, 2009 | Viewed 1447 times
A very different book by Alastair Reynolds. In this book humans have long colonized our galaxy and split into many different sub-species and sub-civilizations. One such sub-civilization is the shatterlings. They are clones who’s purpose are to explore the galaxy. The particular faction we follow are all clones of a woman who’s childhood is one [...]
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Dec 30th, 2009 | Viewed 1443 times
Catching up on my book reviews, so here is yet another book I just read by Alastair Reynolds. This book is the continuation of the story in “Redemption Ark”. In that book we left a shipload of refugees on a habitable planet after fleeing from the Inhibitors, a machine intelligence who’s task is to prevent [...]
Posted in Computer Stuff, Multimedia on Dec 3rd, 2009 | Viewed 1644 times
Well, I had already bought new hardware for my Media Centre PCÂ a couple of months ago, but this week my good old Silverstone HTPC box died (or the PSU did). I looked a bit around and landed on the Chieftec HM-03B box and a 400W PSU. The box is just fantastic. Has plenty of [...]