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Emily Carr’s paintings: First totems 1892-1911

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Born in Victoria, British Columbia, she started painting First Nations totems in 1907, and decided to document them on the NW coast.

September 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

From quarantine to provenance: how xattrs are copied

macOS has an elaborate set of rules determining which types of xattr are preserve during different types of copying, including syncing to iCloud Drive. Here they are in full detail.

September 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: 4 Gleaning

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Gleaning has Biblical origins, to let the poor get their own free supply of grain. Was it confined to the poorest, and did it remain a right, later in Europe?

September 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

From quarantine to provenance: extended attributes

Extended attributes were added to Mac OS X 10.4, and soon supported the quarantine xattr. They have since flourished, and have valuable properties.

September 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 157 Hospitality in life

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Religious paintings of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and charitable saints, before all changed in the 19th century..

September 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

macOS Sequoia ships next week; here’s a SilentKnight update for it

SilenKnight 2.11 addresses issues with Sequoia, and is strongly recommended if you’re going to update from Monday 16 September onwards.

September 11, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 156 Hospitality in myth

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Myths of Perseus and Atlas, Philemon and Baucis, and the peasants of Lycia teach the ancient code of hospitality to strangers.

September 10, 2024 General, Life, Painting

What performance should you get from different types of storage?

How much faster should a Thunderbolt 3 SSD be for making Time Machine backups? How can you speed up backups to your NAS? Here are representative speeds from real testing.

September 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 36 Theseus and the Minotaur

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King Nisus’ daughter betrays her father and his kingdom to King Minos of Crete. Theseus kills the Minotaur kept in the labyrinth on Crete, then abducts Ariadne to Naxos, where he abandons her.

September 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 272

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 272. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Used […]

September 9, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

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