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Category Archive: General

Trees in the landscape: 2. John Constable as the bridge from old to new

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Constable may seem an unlikely revolutionary, but his landscapes and their trees inspired the Barbizon School and Impressionists.

October 14, 2015 General, Painting

Apple Watch on borrowed time

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Is the Watch another symptom of Apple’s growing designomania? Or poised for success?

October 12, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Trees in the landscape: 1. Introduction to the new series

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A brief glance through the history of painting trees in the landscape, from Rubens and Poussin to van Gogh and Pissarro.

October 11, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Did you miss this toolset? Information and communication theory

From Text Twist and tossed coins, to Jackson Pollock and human genetics – a crucial toolset for life.

October 10, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The customer still is king

Retail and tech giants have been eroding the role of the customer. It is time to fight back.

October 9, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Making subjective reviews more objective

Suggestions as to how to remove observer bias when comparing audio, images, and other subjective comparisons.

October 8, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

No Safe Harbor: how one court ruling has blown data protection apart

Will Europe now force the US to swallow its data protection laws? Look to Dickens for his opinion.

October 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Should we be rehabilitating Sargent, or his critics?

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The recent exhibition of Sargent’s informal portraits raises questions not so much about his work, but more about his critics.

October 5, 2015 General, Painting

Five Catch-22s for IoT security

IoT systems have many challenges. Here are 5 which result in paradoxical security conflicts.

October 5, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Viral volcano movie was a fabrication by the BBC

This clip from a documentary turns out to be a fake, created by digital compositing, and is physically impossible.

October 4, 2015 General, Life, Technology

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