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Category Archive: General

The Steam Christmas breach: more details and a call to action

It turns out that Steam’s leak of personal data was very large, did contain sensitive personal information, and was the result of a denial of service attack. Has it been reported, though?

December 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Painting from memory

Do you have a ‘photographic memory’ which can recall vivid images from the past?

December 30, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Storyspace 3: digging a bit deeper with attributes, prototypes, and actions

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How to use prototypes to save effort, custom user attributes to store content, and run commands, to great effect.

December 30, 2015 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Reflections in art: 5 – Explaining Cézanne’s discrepancies

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To date, explanations of discrepancies in Cézanne’s reflections have assumed that they were intentional. Were they, or could they have been the result of his diabetes?

December 29, 2015 General, Painting

Trees in the landscape: 12. Nicolas Poussin and his leafy oaks

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Few landscape painters since have not been deeply influenced by his pioneering paintings. He also anticipated photographic effects on focus.

December 28, 2015 General, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 6. Titian, Bassano, Veronese, El Greco

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We should add these Masters to the growing list of those with ‘painterly’ style, and consider whether Impressionism was a development of Venetian ‘colorito’ painting?

December 27, 2015 General, Painting

Unexpected Christmas presents: how Steam served the wrong user data

A single point of failure which discarded all privacy protection is hardly an example of good design.

December 27, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Another Year of the Mighty Falling

They fell in 2012, just as they did in 2015. But is Apple still innovating enough?

December 26, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Snow of winter past

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No snow here this Christmas, just lots of wind. But here are some seasonal images.

December 25, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Botticelli’s unique nativity

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His “Mystic Nativity” is a real mystery painting. Here some of its puzzles are explained.

December 24, 2015 General, Life, Painting

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