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Month: January 2016

The Story in Paintings: Lucretia, the hardest narrative of all

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The strongest and most moving narrative can be the simplest: one woman and one dagger.

January 27, 2016 General, Painting

Taxing good sense: breaking old habits in forms

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Using Acrobat for filing your tax return is like sandpaper for cleaning your teeth.

January 27, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Using Storyspace for analysis

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Tools provided in Storyspace are ideal for analysing text and painted narratives, as well as developing them into hypertext.

January 26, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Don’t get cached out: the perils of cached data

Sometimes cached data are not as concealed or transient as we might wish. Don’t get cached out by them.

January 26, 2016 Language, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Rinaldo and Armida, murder sublimated

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Poussin was by no means the only artist to paint the narrative of Rinaldo and Armida. Here are many more.

January 25, 2016 General, Painting

Inside the OS X blacklist: XProtect

Perhaps not as effective as one of the better anti-virus apps, it is free and built into OS X.

January 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Poussin’s Rinaldo and Armida

The story behind Poussin’s painting explained, and its narrative techniques revealed.

January 24, 2016 General, Painting

Is your Mac a nightmare to update?

Some Macs seem to be struggling with El Capitan updates. Does yours?

January 24, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple updates XProtect anti-malware tool in El Capitan

On 21 January 2016, Apple pushed out a silent update to XProtect, its anti-malware protection software built into […]

January 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Accept no substitute: get out in the real world

Those living in towns and cities used to flock out to the country at the weekend. Now it is the time for Minecraft and VR.

January 23, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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