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Author: hoakley

Faint words of apology: Lenovo and Superfish

We are only human, and each of us screws up on occasion. Large multinational corporates also screw up, […]

February 20, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

Warming your hands, and men in tights

One of the better-kept secrets of keeping your hands and feet warm, what wristlets are, and why some men wear tights.

February 20, 2015 General, Life

S.M.A.R.T.ypants

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The real world performance of S.M.A.R.T. to warn of imminent drive failure is not as impressive as its claims, but here is how to get better use from it.

February 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

The Bonfire Brigade

Forget Guy Fawkes, February now seems the month for having your bonfire.

February 19, 2015 General, Life, Technology

Favourite Paintings 5: Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and Thomas Jones, Plein Air, c 1782

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Two modest and simple landscapes, some of the first painted outdoors or ‘plein air’ using oil paints, which paved the way for Constable, Turner, and the Impressionists.

February 18, 2015 Painting

Beyond words and pictures: 2 Metaphor

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Visual metaphor is common in advertising. Such images succeed in bringing together two apparently unrelated subjects, using the one to position the product favourably in the mind of the beholder.

February 17, 2015 Language, Painting

Apple Watch sensors

There are strange stories, wild and fairly uninformed rumour I suspect, about the Apple Watch. When it ships […]

February 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

How the EU is strangling small businesses

Over the next couple of years, the EU is set to shut down as many as 100,000 small businesses across Europe.

February 17, 2015 General, Life, Technology

Happy New Year

Is next (Chinese New) year the Year of the Sheep or Goat?

February 16, 2015 General, Language, Life

There’s no place like…

English – and possibly other languages – get quite weird when it comes to place names. Each seems to become an idiom on its own.

February 16, 2015 General, Language, Life

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