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Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 65 – Periclymenus and the Death of Achilles

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A curious short tale of an unfortunate death, then the divine conspiracy which led to the death of its greatest warrior, Achilles, in the Trojan War. More Rubens…

December 18, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Are we there yet? LockRattler 4.1b4 is the first final candidate

Now offers three different ways of checking for updates, which should be compatible with El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra.

December 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Impressions from Spain: The work of Marià Fortuny, 1870-74

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His style became very Impressionist. Then, when painting outdoors at Portici, Naples, he contracted malaria and died.

December 17, 2017 General, Life, Painting

LockRattler 4.1b3: even better for El Capitan?

Two significant fixes for El Capitan, and one for all users, should bring this beta release closer to the final.

December 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Time out of joint

Should a tool like LockRattler show times in universal (UTC) format, or adjusted to the local time zone? There is no good answer, it seems.

December 17, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Impressions from Spain: The work of Marià Fortuny, 1860-69

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A precocious artist, he went from 2 years study in Rome to Morocco, where he was a war artist. There he became an orientalist.

December 16, 2017 General, Life, Painting

LockRattler 4.1b2 should play better with El Capitan

Fixes a couple of issues when run in El Capitan, including the Check for security update button.

December 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Decoding a property list

You want to read in a property list to structured data in Swift. The solution – in Swift 4 – is in a Coder, as explained here.

December 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Telling Modern Stories: the narrative painting of Benjamin West, 5, Back to classics

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West turns to a series of more classical mythological stories for his paintings between 1792 and 1802. These include Shakespeare, the Bible, and the first novel.

December 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

LockRattler 4.1b1 tells you more, and can install updates for you

Now tells you of the latest installed updates, macOS and security updates, and lets you force and install any outstanding updates.

December 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

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