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Painting the Impossible: Gone with the Wind – land and sea

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Is it really futile and impossible to try to paint the wind? Here’s a selection of evidence, drawn from landscapes and marines.

March 25, 2017 General, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Finding apps, and calls that don’t fail

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Trying to decide whether a selected item is an app bundle turns out to be simple, if you cheat.

March 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 12 – Semele and Jupiter’s Surrogate Pregnancy

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One of the strangest of all myths, only two painters managed to approximate Ovid’s account.

March 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Don’t die in the bath: mains power and mortality

It’s too easy to get blasΓ© and careless with electricity. Don’t die in your bath: please follow these basic precautions.

March 24, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: first release version now available to fix your Help Books

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No more problems with the ‘wrong’ Help Book: this can now identify and fix those issues. First full release.

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 1 1887-1891

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Another narrative painter in Germany around the turn of the 20th century, he is known for his symbolism and femmes fatales.

March 23, 2017 General, Painting

How far back does Sierra’s new log go?

Sierra doesn’t use and ‘roll’ traditional log files. For how long does it keep entries in its new log?

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

How timely are scheduled events in Sierra?

Schedule a periodic task as a Launch Agent. How close to the expected time does macOS actually run it?

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent security update

Overnight, Apple has pushed a silent update to the Gatekeeper security data for macOS 10.12 Sierra and, presumably, […]

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Jules Breton’s Eternal Harvest: 1 1850-1859

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An independent pioneer of ‘social realism’, his densely-populated landscapes showed real people struggling to live in the north French countryside.

March 22, 2017 General, Painting

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