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Month: December 2016

Apple silently updates Gatekeeper security data for Sierra and El Capitan

Apple has today pushed out an update to its Gatekeeper Configuration Data, for Sierra and El Capitan users. […]

December 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

Building a better console replacement: an exercise in Xcode 2

Why does writing a simple app in Swift keep turning into an esoteric guessing game? More hurdles for re-scripting in Swift.

December 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Louis Janmot’s epic, Le Poème de l’âme – 1

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The first of 4 articles looking at an extraordinary narrative series of 34 paintings, many of them quite beautiful.

December 7, 2016 General, Painting

Into the Light: Odilon Redon’s unique eye, 3 – 1905 on

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Classified a Symbolist, his style was uniquely visionary. Here are some of the masterpieces of Symbolism, which still inspire today.

December 6, 2016 General, Painting

File system funnies in Sierra: folders that aren’t, and altered aliases

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Sierra brings undocumented weirdness to the Finder, with a folder that is, but it isn’t, and improved Finder aliases, which don’t work as well. Yet.

December 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 9 – Jacob’s Ladder and the stairway to heaven

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The visual tradition of a stairway to heaven appears quite recent. I propose that Blake was its originator.

December 5, 2016 General, Language, Painting

Protecting Sierra: SIP and its vulnerability

A significant vulnerability has been found in El Capitan and Sierra’s security protection. Will Apple fix it shortly in 10.12.2?

December 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 8 – Last tempera paintings

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Job being smitten by boils, a Count left to starve to death, the ghost of a flea, and one of Blake’s most complex and enigmatic paintings: true genius.

December 4, 2016 General, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: a tragedy to freedom in two Acts

How hard-won freedoms are being taken away by lies, stealth, and guile. A warning to other democracies.

December 4, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Odilon Redon’s unique eye, 2 – 1895-1904

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His oils and pastels were rich in colour, full of flowers and light, and radical visions even by today’s standards.

December 3, 2016 General, Painting

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