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Month: February 2018

Amsterdam for Real: Paintings of George Breitner 2

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‘Girl in a Red Kimono’ is a major work of Japonisme, and relied on photos as well as drawings and sketches. His name has even entered the Dutch language.

February 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Workthrough: Using the macOS version system to recover lost content

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An important section of a document that you’re working has gone missing. Do you search back through backups, or use the versioning system to recover and replace it?

February 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Amsterdam for Real: Paintings of George Breitner 1

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In 1882, he painted with Vincent van Gogh in The Hague. A Naturalist without realist style, he showed street life as it was, and loved Japonism too.

February 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Managing versions has never been simpler: Revisionist 1.0b4 with Quick Look previews

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Check earlier versions by previewing them using Quick Look. This also fixes the bug which gave incorrect sizes for bundle documents such as RTFD.

February 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 76 – Ulysses’ crew turned into pigs

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Ulysses sojourn with Circe, from the Odyssey, as an inset to Virgil’s Aeneid, as retold by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. A first-hand account of transformation.

February 26, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

What to do when a secure connection fails

You go to connect to a website at an HTTPS address. When it can’t establish the secure connection you expect, your browser warns you. What do you do next?

February 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Travellers among Mountains: the Six Masters of the Early Qing

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A sampling of paintings by the other five of the Six Masters – four Wangs and the great flower painter Yun Shouping.

February 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Trusting management

As I was revising and revamping my Keynote presentation, my free disk space was falling in from of my eyes. Each time I saved my work, macOS swallowed another gigabyte of free space.

February 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has updated Gatekeeper configuration data

Apple has today pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data, which should have been silently installed on your […]

February 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

A Traveller among Mountains: the landscape paintings of Wú Lì

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Commemorating the 300th anniversary of his death. A remarkable life as a fine landscape painter, and 30 years as a Jesuit missionary!

February 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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