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Month: November 2016

Into the Light: Frederick Sandys, Rossetti’s shadow?

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Accused by Rossetti of copying his work, Sandys was perhaps a better draftsman than he was at developing original ideas. But was he a plagiarist?

November 16, 2016 General, Painting

Bugs in macOS Sierra Finder: window maximise doesn’t

Maximise a List view window in Finder, and it should expand to accommodate the contents. Only sometimes it doesn’t.

November 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 6: glossary and index

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I almost forgot the end matter: it’s time to add a glossary, and an index. But would built-in Find suffice?

November 16, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Dolce far niente: the apogee of Aestheticism

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A popular title in the 19th century, it is almost a hallmark of the Aesthetic movement: no narrative, no meaning, just art for art’s sake. Except…

November 15, 2016 General, Painting

Watch the other hand: Apple’s evolving input devices

Apple worked a sleight of hand with its Watch: it wasn’t about a watch, but all about a new line of haptic-rich input devices. They’re starting to ship them now.

November 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Shazam: it keeps listening even when turned off

Do you have the app Shazam installed on any of your Macs? Patrick Wardle has just discovered that […]

November 14, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Hans Gude and the grandeur of Norway

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One of the founding fathers of Norwegian and Nordic landscape painting, his was a detailed realism which tried to be true to nature.

November 14, 2016 General, Painting

iCloud, Spotlight, and Time Machine

When you keep documents in iCloud, are they backed up in Time Machine, searched in Spotlight, and kept securely?

November 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

Sargent’s prim ladies reach for Priapus and Bacchanalia

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Two triple portraits of ladies of the nobility, which alluded to two quite racy paintings of drunken feasts, and a goddess with 8 breasts. What is going on?

November 13, 2016 General, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: Apple hasn’t really changed in 25 years

A curious experience when trying to buy AppleCare cover shows that Apple hasn’t changed that much after all.

November 13, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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