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Author: hoakley

Changing Paintings: 13 Echo and Narcissus

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Linked stories of Tiresias, the trans-gender soothsayer, Narcissus who fell in love with himself, and Echo who could only repeat what others said.

April 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 249

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 249. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brown […]

April 1, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Checking bootable systems using bputil on Apple silicon

Sometimes Apple silicon Macs refuse to boot from a bootable system. How to use bputil to check LocalPolicy and work out what’s gone wrong.

April 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Harrowing of Hell and the Supper at Emmaus

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Two themes now largely forgotten: Christ’s descent into Limbo and Harrowing of Hell, and his supper at Emmaus.

March 31, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Why Sonoma 14.4.1 was necessary

How one of the serious bugs in macOS Sonoma 14.4 came about, why it was so serious, and how Apple released a fix in 7 days of it being reported.

March 31, 2024 Macs, Technology

Barbizon in Boston: the bicentenary of William Morris Hunt

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One of few painters of the Barbizon School outside France, he painted portraits of the Boston Brahmins, an early baseball game, and Niagara Falls.

March 30, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 249

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brown beverage […]

March 30, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Invisible Unicode and compound emoji

A collection of zero-width characters, including the joiner used to create compound emoji, and others to control ligatures and line breaks.

March 30, 2024 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Memorable paintings of the Crucifixion

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Paintings by Jan van Eyck, Masaccio, Tintoretto and Delacroix with detailed explanations of their reading and background.

March 29, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Keeping cool: control

Signs of thermal strain in a Mac, including what kernel_task is doing, how to encourage heat dissipation and reduce it production.

March 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

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