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.
Author: hoakley
Forget Guy Fawkes, February now seems the month for having your bonfire.
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.
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.
There are strange stories, wild and fairly uninformed rumour I suspect, about the Apple Watch. When it ships […]
Over the next couple of years, the EU is set to shut down as many as 100,000 small businesses across Europe.
Is next (Chinese New) year the Year of the Sheep or Goat?
English – and possibly other languages – get quite weird when it comes to place names. Each seems to become an idiom on its own.
Just as we are practised and skilled at reading beyond the literality of words, we need tools to see beyond pictures. This is the start of a journey to acquire those tools, and achieve visual literacy.
Q I recently upgraded my Mac mini Server to Yosemite. When the installer reported there was only a […]
The Eclectic Light Company 