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Month: April 2020

Symphonic visions – paintings of Mikalojus Čiurlionis 1

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A musical prodigy, he was synaesthetic, and studied painting after he had trained in music. A true Symbolist.

April 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Time to update updating

It’s dull and workaday, but important to every user. At the moment it just isn’t working properly, whether it’s the App Store or 3rd party subscriptions.

April 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

God of the week: Thanatos (Death)

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Rarely painted, particularly in classical form, until the 19th century, the Grim Reaper is based on Father Time, not Thanatos.

April 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

File Integrity 7 : Which other file formats are resilient?

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Looks at plain text, CSV, XML, JSON, RTF, RTFD, .docx, .xlsx, and PDF. Which should you trust with your important documents in archives?

April 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: A wedding interrupted

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Leon takes Ruggiero back to Paris and confesses his deception to Charlemagne. At Bradamante and Ruggiero’s wedding banquet a black knight shows up, bringing more trouble.

April 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

File Integrity 6 : Which image format is most resilient?

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Which format – alongside Camera Raw – should you store archived images in: JPEG, PNG, TIFF or Apple’s new HEIC?

April 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Animal Sentiments: In memoriam Briton Rivière 2

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Aphrodite fully clothed, and a polar bear on the ice of the Arctic – just two of the later paintings of this Victorian artist.

April 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 43

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 43. Here are my solutions to them. 1: keyboard […]

April 20, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Microsoft AutoUpdate 4.22 was broken but is now fixed

There are widespread reports that Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) version 4.22, which was released on 14 April 2020, doesn’t […]

April 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 5 : How well does error-correcting code work?

Simply having ECC enabled doesn’t mean that damaged files can be recovered. It appears promising, but needs careful real-world evaluation.

April 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

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