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Month: July 2017

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 35 Medea and Pelias

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The decline and fall of Medea, as her sorcery is used for murder, and she kills her own infant sons. Paintings by Delacroix, Turner, and others.

July 31, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Consolation 3.0b4: building a much better log browser

Make your log browsing more colourful, and as a result far easier to read.

July 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra 10.12.6 doesn’t fix the Time Machine bug, but changes it

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Automatic backups will still become irregular or fail altogether, making Sierra 10.12.6 unsuitable for servers and systems requiring sustained operation.

July 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

The Oblivion of Ary Renan

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Friend and biographer of Gustave Moreau, his story and works have now all but vanished. Here are some enigmatic Symbolist paintings.

July 30, 2017 General, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Display of dense text information

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Let Consolation 3 colour your log extracts: it makes a huge difference in reading and understanding them.

July 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Spartan Way of Life

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Classical history paintings are rarer than those of myth. Even fewer show the most anomalous of classical societies: the Spartans.

July 29, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

How to deter your customers

Two recent retail experiences remind me of my mis-spent youth, when I learned the hard way what it takes to sell to customers.

July 29, 2017 General, Life, Technology

Apple pushes yet another security update

Apple has today pushed out another security update, this time to its Malware Removal Tool MRT, bringing it […]

July 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Richard Dadd: 6 To Broadmoor 1860-1886

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In 1864, he was transferred to the newly-built Broadmoor Asylum. Despite that disruption, he continued to paint.

July 28, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Oracle releases surprise Java update

Oracle has released another Java update, only a week after it released 8u141, to fix problems in that […]

July 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

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