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What to do when told to pay VAT due on a completed purchase

The message told me that my government requires VAT to be paid, even though I bought this 2 years ago. Should you pay up?

September 12, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Edgar Degas: Landscapes

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Degas a painter of landscapes? Yes, about 7% of his total output were primarily landscapes, including some of his earliest and last works.

September 12, 2017 General, Painting

Watching macOS file systems: FSEvents and volume journals

Explains how Time Machine knows what to back up, why it performs deep event scans, and how that system is different from HFS+ journaling.

September 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Wet in wet: a brief history of watercolour – 4, After Impressionism

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Including superb paintings by Zorn, Marie Spartali Stillman, Boldini, van Gogh, Cézanne, Sargent, Demuth, and Signac.

September 11, 2017 General, Painting

HEVC and HEIF: new video and still image formats

High Sierra and iOS 11 introduce HEVC video, and HEIF still image compression. But what good are they?

September 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Wet in wet: a brief history of watercolour – 3, 1850-1890

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From Richard Parkes Bonington, through AW Hunt, John Brett, Edward Poynter, Delacroix, Rosa Bonheur, Daumier, Gustave Moreau, and Winslow Homer.

September 10, 2017 General, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: APFS and High Sierra in trouble

Apple’s release of new iPhones and iOS 11 next week will trigger a series of events which will bring great embarrassment. Its new file system APFS is at the centre.

September 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, the best of the first half – 2

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Five of the best stories and finest paintings from the first half of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, from the tragic lovers Pyramus and Thisbe, to the Calydonian boar hunt.

September 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Watch for Amazon Marketplace Rip-offs

How Amazon can offer a £25 book for £125, via its Marketplace associates.

September 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

How iCloud Drive can break Time Machine backups

A strange problem with backups that start, but fail to complete successfully, apparently because of duplicate filenames. T2M2 to the rescue, bringing some important lessons.

September 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

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