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Category Archive: Life

I’m learning Google: no logic in translation

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Ask Google Translate to turn the Hungarian for “I am learning Hungarian” into French, and it tells you that I am learning English, in French.

April 11, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Recycling and rubbish

This week’s crisis problem: are cat food pouches recyclable? Or does it even matter?

April 8, 2016 General, Life, Technology

Huw Wystan Jones: the April Fool

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An explanation and apology for yesterday’s April foolery: and the paintings correctly attributed.

April 2, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

In a Word: Spoof, hoax, and April pranks

Spoof was originally a card game. But why April fools? A quick trip around trickery.

April 1, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

Huw Wystan Jones: the Welsh Impressionist

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Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.

April 1, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story Story

One reason for the continuing popularity of more traditional means of storytelling is their lack of explicitness, and reliance on the imagination.

March 29, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Kirsty Whiten’s Wronger Rites

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The artist gives an account of three paintings from her forthcoming book, a highly successful Kickstart project.

March 20, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting, Technology

Virtual books, virtual ownership, real profits

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When a publisher shuts, physical books don’t lock themselves, erase their pages, or crumble into dust. eBooks do.

March 19, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Who protects your health data?

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Much of our data protection and privacy law dates from the last century. Instead of breaking privacy down, politicians should be protecting it better.

March 10, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Locked iPhones, Apple, and changing law

For once, Apple’s stand could be broken by forthcoming UK legislation, in the form of the Investigatory Powers Bill.

March 8, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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