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Goddess of the Week: Nemesis (retribution)

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If you’re arrogant before the gods, succumbing to Hubris (another deity), then Nemesis is what will come to you.

May 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 47

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 47. Here are my solutions to them. 1: password […]

May 18, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Spundle: a new utility for creating and adjusting sparse bundles

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Saves you from having to learn how to use hdiutil, and supports 6 different file systems and custom band sizes.

May 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Ribbit: Frogs and toads in paintings, 2 Princesses

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Paintings of the Frog Prince and variants by Marianne Stokes, Kolo Moser, and Pierre Bonnard. Medea by Sandys and Waterhouse.

May 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The tragic case of audiobooks

A hitchhiker’s guide to the mess that is the audiobook section in Apple’s Books app. Time to launch a Vogon Constructor Fleet?

May 17, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Ribbit: Frogs and toads in paintings, 1 Lycians

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Paintings of this popular story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by Tintoretto, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and the unknown Gabriel Guay.

May 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 47

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Friend or […]

May 16, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Snug sparse bundles work better, but…

Is it better to make sparse bundles ‘snug’, sizing them so that they don’t have as much free space? What if you then need to resize them?

May 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Odilon Redon’s Vision 2

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Brilliantly coloured butterflies and flowers, Buddha, and a small sailing boat were among recurrent themes in his later work.

May 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Sparse bundles leak space

They readily grow in size up to their maximum. But getting them to shrink when contents are reduced isn’t as easy.

May 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

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