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Category Archive: General

Why won’t Safari open that web page?

Did you think it was only old Mac OS X affected by the Let’s Encrypt certificate expiry problem? No, it’s Safari wherever you can use it. Here’s how to deal with it.

October 1, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 11 William Nicholson

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Whistler encouraged him to paint in 1900, and he went on to Impressionist landscapes during the early 20th century. He also won a gold medal at the Olympics, and taught Winston Churchill.

September 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Francisco Goya: Ivory miniatures

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During the winter of 1824-25, when in Bordeaux, he painted about 40 remarkable miniatures on slivers of ivory. Here are nine of the survivors.

September 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 4 Dutch Horizons

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Rubens as a landscape painter influenced by the Brueghels, and the changing horizons seen in Dutch Golden Age paintings.

September 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Don Quixote 27: Sancho’s deception

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First Sancho convinces Don Quixote that an ugly peasant girl stinking of garlic is Lady Dulcinea, then they bump into a troupe of actors and nearly get stoned again.

September 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 118

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 118. Here are my solutions to them. 1: 42, […]

September 27, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

A life of Perseus in paintings 2

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From his battle with the sea monster to the deadly fight at his wedding to Andromeda, paintings by Titian, Veronese, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

September 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A life of Perseus in paintings 1

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From conception in the rape of Danaë by Zeus, to his mission to bring the head of Medusa to King Polydectes, paintings by Klimt, Burne-Jones, and others.

September 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 118

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 42, 3.14159, 0x2A, […]

September 25, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Podofyllin version 1.1 introduces lightweight bookmarks

New ‘marks’, lightweight bookmarks to make navigating large documents easier. They aren’t written out to the PDF document, though, leaving it intact.

September 25, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

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