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Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 15 – Pyramus and Thisbe

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Not a Greek myth, this tragic love story is the ultimate ancestor to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and other major works. Here are the best paintings.

April 11, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: opening docs and converting text

Scripting a friendly front-end for the iconv tool to convert text between 144 different types of encoding. Also how to open as well as save documents.

April 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 4 1910-1913

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Dancers, fauns, and the inevitable femmes fatales dominated his paintings before the outbreak of war.

April 10, 2017 General, Painting

How to normalise strings, and a new command tool to help

How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.

April 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Spouse-swapping, matricide, and Harry Potter

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Betrothed to Orestes, Hermione was forcibly removed and given to Pyrrhus. Later, Orestes murdered his mother. So why does Hermione appear in Harry Potter?

April 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Summer’s coming, mostly

Apple spills some of its beans to a select group of the press, and we start to explore the new features expected in macOS 10.13.

April 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Painting the Impossible: Music

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Music and musicians have been very popular themes for paintings since before the Renaissance. How successful are they in evoking our auditory imaginations?

April 8, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

How to make your own APFS volume

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Some detailed guidance to help you make a test volume in Apple’s new APFS format, in either case-insensitive or -sensitive variant.

April 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

APFS and macOS 10.13: many apps and tools will need to be revised

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Case-insensitive APFS is not at chaotic as the case-sensitive variant. But there are still plenty of problems which developers and users need to prepare for.

April 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Children and the sea: the paintings of Virginie Demont-Breton

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Specialised in painting mothers and their children, and fisherfolk of the Channel coast, she was highly successful and advanced career prospects for women painters.

April 7, 2017 General, Painting

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