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Wrong of way

When you last walked a footpath (in the UK), do you remember its number? Yesterday, when walking up […]

January 26, 2015 General, Life

Cadmium blues

Last summer, artists across Europe were shocked at a proposal to ban the sale of artists’ paints containing […]

January 25, 2015 Painting

Q&A: Words of old

Q I have some important old documents which were created using Microsoft Word before 2002; most are from […]

January 25, 2015 Macs

Truth in (landscape) painting 2

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a pioneer scientist and polymath who had great influence over nineteenth century research […]

January 24, 2015 Painting

Play it again, Sam

When MP3 and other forms of lossy audio compression were starting to become popular 15 years ago, I […]

January 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Birth of a new English phrase

It’s not too often that we see the birth and early infancy of a new phrase in English, […]

January 23, 2015 Language

Why is your forecast ten degrees out?

Like many armchair and amateur meteorologists, I like comparing my expectations with those of the professionals. Just recently, […]

January 23, 2015 General, Life

What’s in a name?

Wednesday, things started to go downhill.* It should have been straightforward: take my Dad (86 and fiercely independent) […]

January 23, 2015 General, Life

Q&A: Broken promise

Q I rearranged the room in which my iMac and Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID R4 live. Before doing anything, […]

January 21, 2015 Macs

Java update 8u31

Important security update to Oracles’s Java SE, release 8u31 of 18 Dec 2014, available 20 Jan 2015, from […]

January 21, 2015 Macs

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