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Recovering from a hard crash

Crashes don’t come any harder than when your Mac just sits there, your startup disk missing or unusable. Here is how to prepare for, and recover from, such a hard crash.

March 15, 2015 Macs

Modern English Grammars – 1 Student grammars and manuals of style

The first of two articles, this covers student grammars, style guides, and the like, which are useful to those already fluent in English who wish to take that further. All avoid being prescriptive.

March 14, 2015 Language

Favourite Paintings 12: Anonymous, Funerary Portrait of a Woman (‘The European’), c 80 – 200 CE

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A hauntingly beautiful portrait of a young adult woman lost in quiet thought, made to fit on her mummy. Was she contemplating her eventual death?

March 13, 2015 Painting

Word by word: our love of noun-preposition-noun constructions

Little by little, English has accumulated some odd phrases. This group consists of a noun followed by a […]

March 13, 2015 Language

From pigment to painting: 3 Lightness, 50 shades of grey

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Lightness is key to the depiction of materials, textures, edges, and form. Illusions can confound the viewer, and it is vital to map the lightness of your motif to that of your painting.

March 12, 2015 Painting

Adobe Flash Player update

Another few days have passed since the last, so it must be time for the next Adobe Flash […]

March 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Book review: Written in Stone, by Christopher Stevens

If you want a breathless scramble through some speculative etymology of hundreds of English words, best dipped into in small doses, then this book might appeal to you.

March 12, 2015 General, Language, Life

Apple online service disruption

There has been continuing disruption to Apple’s online services throughout today 11 March 2015, and although some services […]

March 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Book review: Accidence will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage, by Oliver Kamm

This little book puts the case against prescriptivist ‘grammars’, then offers some useful tips about a range of issues in ‘Standard English’.

March 11, 2015 General, Language, Life

Not a watch

Forgive me. I only have a month to rehearse this and get it right. Q: £600 for a […]

March 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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