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Category Archive: Life

Desperate measures: the new campaign to demetricate

It makes as much sense as reverting to Norman French as the official language in UK courts and administration.

September 26, 2016 General, Life, Technology

Last week on my Mac: Tracking and privacy, and the hidden OS X update

Social media and ad trackers do not operate to acceptable standards of privacy. And Apple just sprung us a minor update to OS X, not just a security update.

September 4, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Where the law fails to protect

A chilling tale with a happy ending – for once – which shows how our governments don’t want to improve our computer security.

August 28, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Eclectic Light Company gets a Liebster award

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Some answers to the 11 questions, and nominations for 11 deserving blogs.

August 26, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Health, medical devices, and Apple

Wearable devices are tiger country. If they go anywhere near being medical devices, bringing them to market is slow, costly, and constraining.

August 16, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Hieronymus Bosch: the life of a great Master

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We don’t even know what day he died, but 500 years ago on 9 August 1516, his life was commemorated by family and friends at a memorial mass.

August 7, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Industrial copyright abuse

Copyright should protect the creators and their work. It has been turned on its head, to generate immoral earnings for companies who have no rights in much of the content they sell.

August 6, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Brexit and data protection in the UK

The EU is changing to new data protection regulations in 2018. How might Brexit complicate that? Roadmaps provided.

August 5, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Someone is likely to be profiting from your public domain content

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Is it right that image libraries should charge their customers for the use of content which they know is in the public domain?

August 3, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

How well did I forecast?

Did any of the predictions I made on New Year’s Day work out? Some proved to be spookily accurate after all.

July 30, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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