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Category Archive: General

Bring out your bugs

Software vendors should be able to take pride in the way in which they address bugs, not feel so ashamed that the information has to be kept quiet.

June 30, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

What’s in a Name?

I had just switched from satellite to ADSL broadband, and in the early evening, my old email addresses stopped, dead and gone forever.

June 29, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Book Review: Samuel Palmer, William Vaughan

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This is a monumental, meticulous, and insightful account of Palmer’s life and work. It merits a wide readership.

June 28, 2015 General, Painting

NIH: a common but sinister disease

It’s as primitive as a dominant stag roaring and grunting from the top of the tump during the rut, and all too often as drunk with testosterone.

June 28, 2015 General, Life

Lifelong learning

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How many of this summer’s new graduates will find that their workplace expects silent submission, and stifles the real benefits of lifelong learning?

June 27, 2015 General, Life

Good Lords! How UK government has ignored online crime

Perhaps this shocking litany of lame excuses and perpetual procrastination is reflection of a covert policy to take crime off the streets, and put it onto the Internet instead.

June 25, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Janus and Mars

I still think of those who died in the Falklands War, and of Tony Tyler, one of the wittiest and most perceptive of the contributors to MacUser. We miss them.

June 24, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Better than any dictionary: the Historical Thesaurus of the OED

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Like so many of David Crystal’s books, “Words in Time and Place” is seriously addictive, and essential for anyone with the slightest interest in the English language.

June 23, 2015 General, Language

Open Government

A truly open government champions open standards and open source, and nurtures European software development.

June 23, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Worrying trends in a 39 year old Apple

Let us hope that this apparent forgetfulness is not a sign of things to come.

June 22, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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