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The Divine Comedy: Purgatory 1 Starting the ascent

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Dante and Virgil sail to the island-mountain of Purgatory, where they are met by Cato. They then start its ascent, illustrated by William Blake, Doré and others.

June 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

PDF without Adobe: 22 The fractious PDF

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Searching this PDF using Preview is hopeless. Is it a bug in Preview or macOS? How can you get proper access to its contents?

June 11, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Bicentenary of Gustave Courbet, a founding father of modern art

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A major influence of realism, leading to Naturalism, and on Impressionism, Courbet was one of those who paved the way for modern art.

June 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine: past, present and future

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Coming up to its 12th birthday, Time Machine backups have changed a great deal, but still rely on a feature almost unique to HFS+. What is their future?

June 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Great Wave 2, Courbet to Gauguin

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After European artists saw Hokusai’s print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, their own depictions became widespread, peaking in 1896.

June 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Homage to Catalina

Was WWDC a damp squib after all? With only one new unaffordable Mac announced, and more dreadful privacy dialogs on their way, you might think so.

June 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Great Wave 1, Vernet to Hokusai

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Painters paid little attention to the form of near-breaking regular waves until the mid-1700s. Japanese art later changed Western painting, with a single print by Hokusai.

June 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Dystextia and Apfelstrudel updated

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Dystextia encodes and decodes obfuscated or spoofed Unicode text. Apfelstrudel analyses Unicode normalisation, ideal when working with text on computers.

June 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Update to Nalaprop to parse natural language

It can parse text in any combination of 8 different languages, showing parts of speech and even word roots.

June 8, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Nalaprop Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free utility Nalaprop, which parses multilingual text […]

June 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

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