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Category Archive: Life

Painting: St Martin’s Down, watercolour on paper, plein air

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I parked myself right in front of Appuldurcombe House, and looked in the opposite direction, where St Martin’s Down rises above our village.

June 13, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Obscured by clouds: how to lose your audiobooks

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There are subtle but very important differences between iTunes in the Cloud, and iCloud Backup.

June 12, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Limited Access

Although we like to claim how rapidly modern technology is changing the world, and not just Western society, I am not so impressed.

June 12, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Book Review: Lost in Translation, Ella Frances Sanders

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Who could resist the urge to pick this exquisite little book up and browse through its painted pages?

June 11, 2015 General, Language, Life, Painting

Going viral: fame or doom

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There is already a substantial queue of organisations waiting to know how to create intensely viral events, and how to control them.

June 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Hatred of Hippocrates? The rise of a broken meme

I would never have dreamed that huge numbers of people would propagate an obvious malapropism. But search Twitter, or use any regular search engine like Google, for “hate hippocrates”, and step back in amazement.

June 8, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Enhancing Performance

Why don’t computer magazines have ads like “Chew KipperGum, its Omega 3 fatty acids will fuel your Photoshop work beyond Steve Caplin’s”, or “Evening Primrose Tea puts the fourth dimension into Lightwave”?

June 8, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Book Review: We Go to the Gallery, Miriam and Ezra Elia

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If you too find Tracey Emin’s bed tawdry, then you should enjoy Miriam and Ezra Elia’s delightful parody of a classic Ladybird learn-to-read book, We Go to the Gallery.

June 6, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Popular vote or social engineering

Even the least money-motivated of us become tempted to play to the gallery, and their view statistics.

June 5, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Which advertising companies are tracking your online activity?

You know those creepy adverts which keep appearing on websites, offering you products which you have either just […]

June 3, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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