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Telling Modern Stories: the narrative painting of Benjamin West, 4, Major religious works

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Far from continuing to paint ‘modern history’, he embarked on major projects for religious paintings, some of which are superb.

December 5, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Inside the iCloud keychain, and its problems

So you think you know about iCloud Keychain? A careful exploration turns up some surprises, and suggests some good rules for troubleshooting.

December 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 63 – First casualties at Troy, and gender change

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Greek and Trojan forces join battle, with casualties on both sides. Two stories, one of a defeated warrior changing into a swan, the other of a woman changing into a man.

December 4, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Bug-hunting in Consolation and Woodpile: success in obscurity

New updates to these apps fix crashing bugs when using styled log display, or converting log excerpts to CSV (Consolation).

December 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Bluebeard, serial murder, and nursery tales

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Telling stories visually is necessarily explicit. How then do you tell the story of a serial murderer who hangs the bodies of his victims in a cupboard, to young children?

December 3, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Getting to the root of High Sierra’s problems

Why has High Sierra suffered such glaring security and other bugs? Look carefully at where they have occurred, and it suggests that this isn’t just carelessness.

December 3, 2017 Macs, Technology, Uncategorized

Redbeard, war against Russia, and drowning in armour

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Code name for the invasion of Russia in WW2, Barbarossa was one of the most powerful rulers in Europe. Here’s his life in paintings, and his death by drowning in shallow water.

December 2, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Trouble with your keychain? Here’s the first test release of KeychainCheck 2

Completely rewritten to use macOS support libraries, parse log extracts, work with both local and iCloud keychains, and give you controls.

December 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 62 – The Greeks attack Troy

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The ‘thousand ships’ of the Greek forces are gathered at Aulis, waiting for fair winds. A sign tells them how long the war against Troy will last, but they have to do something horrific first.

December 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Apple has pushed updates to MRT and XProtect security data

Apple has just pushed silent updates to the configuration data for its malware removal tool MRT, and to […]

December 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

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