One of my favorite persons in the F1 circus through the years has to be Paul Stoddart. For many reasons, his team (Minardi) was the starting place for different F1 drivers. Think of Justin Wilson, Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso but also the dutch drivers Robert Doornbos, Christian Albers and Jos Verstappen (Minardi was the last…

One of the things i love to do is open up old hardware that needs to get scrapped. Reason is not to learn from it, but to see if i can reuse stuff from it. Mainly old pc’s i find interesting. Main boards i don’t really have a new use for, and even CPU’s i…

Saturday i was placing a fluorescent lamp at my attic. After we moved 5 years ago there was only a small light, so when we needed something from the attic we needed to get it by daylight or we needed to find it by touch. My brother is a construction worker and had brought a…

The people who know me, know that i have a big collection of scale model cars. I got interrested in collecting when i bought a scale model car for my ex- father-in-law. He got the Jenson Button 1:18 Williams car if i recall correctly. Although JB wasn’t an hous hold name in F1 at that…

Through the years i’ve played a lot of pc games. In my youth (teens) i’ve played every game i could get my hands on. Some were good, others were crap. Last couple of year my choice of game was Day of Defeat Source. This game is a so called mod based upon the Half Life…