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Category Archive: General

Exploring natural languages with Nalaprop

How to analyse text in any combination of 8 major languages into parts of speech, and make word frequency counts, all for free.

August 24, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

A History of Rome in Paintings: 2 Etruscans

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Were they descended from survivors of the city of Troy, or perhaps they were Greeks? Did the Romans welcome or exterminate them?

August 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

In Swedish Country: In Memoriam Anders Zorn (1860-1920)

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Zorn’s finest art seen through his paintings of ordinary people, particularly those of his home town Mora in Sweden.

August 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 61

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: The only […]

August 22, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

A History of Rome in Paintings: 1 Trojan Origins

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Who were the Romans, who built their city and its empire? This series looks at the history of Rome as shown in paintings, starting here with its forefather, Aeneas maybe?

August 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Fun and confuddling with Unicode

How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.

August 21, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Faerie Queene 1: The Redcrosse Knight and Una

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In which the Redcrosse Knight kills the monster Error, then falls prey to the magic of Archimago and into the clutches of the false Duessa.

August 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying 6: Pre-Impressionism

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While others painted near Rome, a slow revolution burned in the north, with Isabey, Daubigny, and most of all Jongkind and Boudin.

August 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Can QR codes be used to control Covid-19 transmission?

Both New Zealand and England have adopted QR codes in their smartphone apps to prevent spread of Covid-19. How do they work?

August 19, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Art of Anders Zorn 7: The White House and legacies

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In 1911, he sailed to the US to paint its President, the third he had made a portrait of. But less than ten years later, Zorn was dead.

August 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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