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Edvard Munch: A life in paintings 1884-1892

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First article outlining Munch’s life and work. His early works shocked critics in Norway, and in Berlin brought an exhibition to a premature end.

April 17, 2017 General, Painting

Conventions and Standards for Mac Articles

Information for anyone reading articles about Macs here, and an introduction to dealing with their problems.

April 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Pride and Petulance: How one woman almost spared Troy

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The anger of Achilles almost brought the Greek war against Troy to a grinding halt. But is Homer’s account fair, or was there more to it?

April 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: No normal user

Why does almost every Mac user use their system in an admin role? Shouldn’t macOS encourage us to be ‘normal’ users?

April 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Painting the Impossible: Touch

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Coming in several modalities, touch is taken for granted, and least used in the arts. Paintings of and about touch are spectacular and ingenious, but there is ample scope for more.

April 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Was that a crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball? A diagnostic guide

Can you tell the difference? What is the significance of each, and do you know what to do about them? An introductory guide.

April 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Mother of the Muses: Mnemosyne

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She gets but a single line in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and has been painted only rarely, and then usually in a supporting role.

April 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Encoding conversion without tears

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Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s log is now locked away from normal users

In an undocumented change, 10.12.4 prevents any access to reading Sierra’s log when in normal user mode – it requires admin mode.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Easter in Paintings: From Gethsemane to the Tomb

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A selection of paintings by Memling, Bosch, Blake, Tissot, Corinth, and others to mark Easter.

April 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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