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Saturday Mac riddles 100

Here are this weekend’s riddles – a special centenary edition – to entertain you through whatever you’re now […]

May 22, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How WordPress comments and Property Lists can trip you up

When you write a comment to an article here, or edit a Property List, you’re editing XML. Two or three characters won’t work properly.

May 22, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Still Life History: 3 The Dutch Golden Age

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It flourished and brought commercial success to many artists, and laid the foundations for sub-genres. Still lifes were among the most innovative and exciting paintings of the day.

May 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

M1 Secure Boot, morphine and self-destruction

One command in Terminal which instantly disables any support, and why you can’t (yet) boot your M1 Mac in Linux.

May 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 2

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Edward Lear paints his visits to Palestine, Greece, Albania, and India, including a breathtaking view of Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling.

May 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Adding more Thunderbolt ports using a Kensington SD5700T Dual 4K Dock

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It has been years coming, but I’ve finally got a Thunderbolt hub/dock which lets me connect more TB3 disks. Was it worth the wait and cost?

May 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 1

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Once Britain’s foremost natural history artist, when he realised his eyesight was failing he turned to painting landscapes on his travels.

May 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Dealing with a kernel panic during M1 startup

My M1 Mac mini was stuck trying to start up. Its power light was on, but there was no video output, and to all intents it was dead.

May 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 10: Madness in the mountains

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In which a young noble starts telling the story as to how he came to pay penance in the mountains, but never finishes. The theft of Sancho’s donkey, and Don Quixote feigns madness.

May 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Getting more from Activity Monitor: CPU

What you can learn about the processes running on your Mac, its processor cores, even the files which an app has open.

May 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

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