A complete freeze, restart, and lockout

Things were not looking good: my Mac would not start up, and the RAID would not shut down. Stalemate.

Brief Candles: Richard Parkes Bonington, part 1

Although he did not even make his 26th birthday, Bonington was very successful, and a great influence on Delacroix and others since.

What do you do when your Mac seems to have restarted quietly when it should have been asleep?

Already, it is being rumoured that this summer, Apple will change the name of OS X to macOS. Is this just for consistency?

An explanation and apology for yesterday’s April foolery: and the paintings correctly attributed.

Spoof was originally a card game. But why April fools? A quick trip around trickery.

Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.