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Category Archive: General

Still no Year of the Geek

Has Apple forgotten the needs of the high-end creatives? This year, let’s cultivate the geek in us.

May 3, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Two centuries, two authors, two platforms

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Celebrating the bicentenaries of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew with a couple of concordance tools.

May 2, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Scammed and scarred: a cautionary tale

Today I had an anguished phone call from a dear friend who, just a few days ago, succumbed to a phishing attack. He was electronically mugged, and no one cares.

May 1, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Mirror, mirror, on the web, who was the most frustrated of them all?

This morning I nearly took a selfie and posted it to How-Old.net to see if it would cope with ages over 100. And I put it all down to Adobe.

May 1, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Wishes almost granted

What happens when you ask for electronic publishing tools? You end up with products which bind you into constraints, charge royalties, or have to be leased.

May 1, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Will we Go or Rust?

If the designers of Go and Rust had read the work of Sapir and Whorf, they would have realised that to accomplish real change in programming requires greater change in the language used.

April 30, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Book review: The Work of Art, Anthea Callen

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This book looks at the type of painting which was central to Impressionism – the plein air landscape – and traces its development from inception by Desportes in the latter years of the seventeenth century, through the Barbizon School, to its peak in the late nineteenth century.

April 29, 2015 General, Painting

Planned major articles May-July 2015

I am currently planning the following major articles and series for the coming three months: Macs and Technology […]

April 29, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

And For Apple’s Next Trick…

I wrote the following commentary in March 2012, which I reproduce unaltered apart from slight adjustments to paragraph […]

April 29, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

The End is Nigh?

I am sure that some of the 22,000 tablets in the library of the kings of Assyria at […]

April 28, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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