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Month: January 2016

The Story in Paintings: A Feast of Veronese

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Veronese used a narrative form which only works in paintings and other visual media, and is still used in popular children’s books.

January 31, 2016 General, Painting

Is brevity the soul of the abrupt, rude, and offensive?

Is Twitter’s 140 character limit the case of so much rudeness and offensive behaviour? Ask Richard Dawkins.

January 31, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

RIP The Land Rover (Defender)

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Production ends after 67 years. But how is the Mac doing after just 32 years?

January 30, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Off with his head!

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Wonderful paintings of a gruesome story: that of Judith and Holofernes, by Veronese, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi.

January 30, 2016 General, Painting

Losing their Sparkle: vulnerabilities in updaters

In-app update systems can be vulnerable to attack, if they do not use secure connections throughout.

January 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Turner’s narratives

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Turner’s style may have become radical, but he continued to paint narrative works throughout his career.

January 29, 2016 General, Painting

A billion active devices

With only one Apple device for every 7 people in the world, Apple must still be marginal. And to have taken 8.5 years from shipping the iPhone is so slow. Doom or what?

January 29, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

OS X El Capitan is probably due an important security fix

A serious vulnerability was discovered in OpenSSL in the New Year. Although the conditions in which it is […]

January 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Delacroix and the last great histories

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The Death of Sardanapalus, a story from Orlando Furioso, and the question of narrative in Courbet’s paintings.

January 28, 2016 General, Painting

Name that disk: what to call your storage

Being a hybrid, naming disks and volumes can get complex in OS X. This article demystifies them.

January 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

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