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Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 11 Rubens and his hunts

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Around 1616, Rubens painted a series of Hunts featuring lions and tigers. Delacroix love these and in 1855 painted his own Lion Hunt. But neither had ever seen anything like this.

July 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

iCloud Drive changes extended attributes

At first it looks like iCloud Drive preserves all xattrs, but actually it cheats and show those stored locally. It’s different when you access the same files from another Mac.

July 21, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […]

July 20, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 10 Two libraries

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Five of the narrative 22 paintings he made for the ceiling of the library in the Palais Bourbon.

July 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Backing up iCloud, iCloud recovery and document versions

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Using local Time Machine backup, iCloud Recovery, and saved versions to recover previous and current versions of files in iCloud Drive, and their limitations.

July 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 65 Wells

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How truth is associated with a well, where Jesus spoke with a Samaritan woman, where to dispose of a rapist, and one of Paul Signac’s less successful paintings.

July 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Searching iCloud Drive with Spotlight

Why doesn’t Spotlight seem able to return search results for files stored in iCloud Drive? And a strange feature discovered in extended attributes.

July 19, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Ilia Repin

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Born in Ukraine, started his training there, trained in Saint Petersburg and then in Paris. But he died in Finland, and didn’t return to Russia after the 1917 Revolution.

July 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

What is firmware for, and why does it need updating?

Why do macOS updates keep updating firmware? Is it full of bugs or what? And just what does firmware do?

July 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: 21 Flight of Aeneas

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Aeneas flees the burning city of Troy with his wife, father and young son. But his wife falls back and is lost. He builds ships and sails on to Delos.

July 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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