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Dystextia: a platform for exploring Unicode encoding problems, obfuscating text, and spoofing

Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.

June 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Carl Larsson’s Ideal Home: 1 France 1877-1885

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Known best for his watercolours of his wife and family in their ideal and idyllic Swedish home, his work is far richer and more varied.

June 12, 2017 General, Painting

The return of the volume

In recent years, most Mac users have stopped partitioning drives into volumes. In High Sierra, you will probably want to use volumes again. Lots.

June 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Two Marriages of Great Convenience: 2 The exchange of princesses

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Marie’s plan to bring peace to Europe is implemented in double royal weddings. The paintings say it brought a new age to France, but history says otherwise.

June 11, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week Off My Mac: A1 and AI

Apple keeps its promise with High Sierra and new Macs, but is less helpful in the log, and courts danger in AI.

June 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Two Marriages of Great Convenience: 1 Marie de’ Medici’s grand plan

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An introduction to some of the history and panegyric behind Rubens’ Marie de’ Medici Cycle, in the Louvre.

June 10, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Why we can’t keep stringing along with Unicode

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Unicode is wonderful, a foundation for culture, but flawed. With characters that are visually indistinguishable having different encodings, it is rotting our filenames, URLs, and strings.

June 10, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 25 – Arethusa

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The story of how the nymph Arethusa escapes pursuit by a river god, thanks to the divine intervention of Diana.

June 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Time Machine Mechanic (T2M2) version 1.0 released

Now places its report in a scrolling text view, has extensive Help book, and more. The only tool for checking that Time Machine backups are being made properly.

June 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: 5 Pissarro and the human landscape

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Evolution from realism to the more painterly. Then in the late 1890s, city landscapes in which the people are the landscape. Remarkable paintings seen in detail.

June 8, 2017 General, Painting

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