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Month: March 2017

Paul Nash: from ancient to surreal, 3 – 1931-1938

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At the height of his surrealism, his paintings were inspired by found objects, Freud, and the megalithic monuments of Wessex.

March 8, 2017 General, Painting

Making an Installer package the easier way

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Another epic journey, this time to make an Installer package for my Blowhole command tool.

March 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 8 – Turned into stone, Mercury and Aglauros

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Two turned to stone: Battus for betraying Mercury, and Aglauros for obstructing Mercury’s courting of Herse, and her jealousy.

March 7, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Help Help: 1 Help Crafter

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So how can you add proper help to your app? Amazingly, Xcode’s Help doesn’t even mention Help. It’s time to invest in Help Crafter.

March 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Nikolai Astrup: Dark Sunlight 2 – 1906-10

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With early success, he painted the rich colours of summer in western Norway, and some magical scenes of foxgloves and Midsummer Eve.

March 6, 2017 General, Painting

Blowhole version 1.2 – a more useful tool to write log entries

This command tool can now write just the integer passed to it as a log message. This is ideal for instrumenting scripts and apps for analysis.

March 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.0b4 now available – feature complete?

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Several significant improvements to CSV export to work around issues when importing to Excel and others.

March 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Message on an Apple, and Two Abandoned Lovers

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How Acontius won his bride, and how a portrait of her by an obscure Dutch painter may be part of a series. Mysteries solved, perhaps?

March 5, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Transforming the log to a user tool

Browsing my log in Excel for the first time was a revelation of its potential. We have the tools – all we need is the imagination.

March 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Over the Rainbow: getting the colours right

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Rainbows are one of nature’s grand spectacles. How careful, then, have painters been to get their colours in the ‘right’ order?

March 4, 2017 General, Painting

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