Sometimes chasing the origin and meanings of an apparently simple English word gives us a glimpse of a […]
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Visit the Louvre or another gallery and you will see copyists, usually skilled artists making meticulous copies of […]
This article considers Claude Monet’s series paintings: how they developed, which major series he produced, and what he intended by painting them.
Q I am trying to network two external CCTV systems so that I can monitor them online. There […]
Whether in spreadsheets, databases, or elsewhere, data and derived calculations can readily let you down. What can you do to detect and correct errors?
Make way for a replacement Turing Test: you can always distinguish between artificial intelligence and a real human […]
A compilation of cock-ups and other misadventures in and by Amazon, in my case, amazon.co.uk.
Why do those who make the law lack even the merest whiff of common sense?
This article considers Alfred Sisley’s series paintings: how they developed, which major series he produced, and what he intended by painting them.
No matter how much disk storage you have, it just seems to fill up. Compressing little-used and archived items might be a good way to save space. Does it?
The Eclectic Light Company 