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Category Archive: General

Purposeful portables

For a few years, I managed to get along without wasting any more money on PDAs and their ilk. Then came the Zaurus, and Dana. But none compared with the Z88.

July 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Licensed to mow: paying to use CODECs

The commercial mower of lawns does not pay a royalty for each lawn that they mow. So why should a user of H.264 video encoding be expected to pay royalties?

July 9, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

High quality hash

I needed a one-way method of generating a unique key for each subject name that would not permit the reverse process, of working out the name for a given key: something known as a ‘one-way hash key’.

July 8, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Movable feasts

Calendars, Mathematica, and the Mac: a curious but productive union.

July 6, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Broken Clouds, or why you won’t find my embarrassing photos

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Even though images of you may not be as sought after as those of celebrities, we all need to sharpen up our Cloud security.

July 5, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Timing shots, a software obituary

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Barry Salt analysed film shot structure using a stop-watch and film viewer. The late TOKI Shot did this semi-automatically.

July 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Mark my words

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For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.

July 3, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Crucial new evidence on school shootings and mass killings

Whichever country they occur in, mass killings and school shootings chill us all to the bone. Although limited […]

July 2, 2015 General, Life

The body real: paintings by Ellen Altfest, and a Book Review

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Ellen Altfest paints the real world, a morsel at a time. Her paintings are both very modern and deeply traditional, and absolutely magnificent.

July 2, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Hot Stuff

If you ever used a PowerBook G4 on naked flesh, you will already have experienced the thermal limit to processor speed.

July 2, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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