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Lost in translation: an amusing ad

Machine translation has come on leaps and bounds, but there are still times when Google Translate and other […]

November 23, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Ad-blockers and vested interests

The ad industry and its dependents need to reflect about what is so wrong with online advertising.

September 19, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Ashley Madison, the press and data protection

Current UK and EU data protection law was drafted before Google or the Cloud existed, and fails to protect us in many ways.

August 21, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Google OnHub: could this be a WiFi spy? (revised)

Would you invite the world’s largest advertising corporation to take all the information that it wants from inside […]

August 18, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Arts in Hard Times

Why Apple should be giving more to charity, and how that should include the arts.

August 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Message from MacUser’s grave

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It was almost six months to the day since MacUser’s untimely death that my incoming email contained a message from the deceased publication.

July 18, 2015 General, Life, Macs

Which advertising companies are tracking your online activity?

You know those creepy adverts which keep appearing on websites, offering you products which you have either just […]

June 3, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Beyond words and pictures 4: modern painting, and conclusions

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Is modernism different with respect to its use of visual tropes such as metonymy? The answer leads us to conclusions about the reliance of language and painting on metaphor and metonymy.

February 23, 2015 Language, Painting
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