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Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 60 – Daedalion, Ceyx and Halcyone turned into birds

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Chione, who had been raped by Mercury and Apollo, is silenced by Diana’s arrow. Her father is transformed into a hawk, and King Ceyx and his grieving widow are changed into kingfishers.

November 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Making Woodpile more usable: version 1.0b3

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New features to set the number of bars in its chart view, and refresh a view. Improvements in usability and efficiency, and a couple of bug fixes.

November 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Moor Colour: Fritz and Hermine Overbeck

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Significant Post-Impressionist landscape painters of the colony at Worpswede. Both painted en plein air on the local “Devil’s Moor”.

November 23, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Starting up in High Sierra 10.13.1: an initial log exploration

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Changes include frequent timechecks by timed, harder access to info about keychains, a couple of possible AppleScript bugs, and APFS snapshots.

November 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Seeing History: The long dark night

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The world looks very different now, compared with the past. This explores differences in lighting, from candlepower to the excesses seen in modern cities, and their effects on painting.

November 22, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Are you being pestered to upgrade to High Sierra?

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This marketing notification was silently installed using Apple’s pushed update service, and is easily removed.

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beware the bogus Symantec blog which will infect you with Proton D

For the last few days, there has been a website posing as a Symantec security blog, at symantecblog[dot]com, […]

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

The unified log in High Sierra 10.13.1

High Sierra makes two significant changes to the unified log system, from Sierra. Here’s an evaluation of them.

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Telling Modern Stories: the narrative painting of Benjamin West, 2, The Death of General Wolfe

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The painting by which West is best known, it was claimed to have started a revolution in art, and to be the first modern history painting. Is there any truth?

November 21, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Checking keychain access using Woodpile: a tutorial

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How to identify which keychains are opened when your Mac starts up, and any problems when that happens.

November 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

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