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The Riches of the Table, and the Futility of Life: Clara Peeters’ still lifes
The early seventeenth century was a time of conflicting ideas. On the one hand, the Netherlands had entered its Golden Age, in which it was the foremost maritime and economic power in Europe, and...
View ArticleLast Week on My Mac: Making more sense of the log
It’s easy to acquire log data: a Mac running Sierra often stores thousands of entries every minute that it’s in use. The difficult task is discovering how to use all that information to best effect....
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The Psychology of the Riddle: Oedipus and the Sphinx
The tragic story of Oedipus, his murder of his father, marriage to his mother, and subsequent agony, has been popular in plays and literary works since classical times. Perhaps because of its...
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Consolation 2.2b1 can now open any new-style ‘unified’ log, from macOS, iOS,...
Until now, my log browser Consolation has only been able to open and analyse the unified log of the Mac on which the app is running. This new beta-test version, 2.2b1, can now open unified logs from...
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T2M2 now timestamps its analyses in version 0.6b1
A new beta-test version of The Time Machine Mechanic, T2M2, now adds a detailed timestamp at the top of its analysis report. The latest release is available from Downloads above. The only change made...
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Figures in a Landscape: 2 Figures, narrative, ground
Few landscape paintings are made so far from the landscape that figures could not be seen in that view. John Brett (1831–1902), Florence from Bellosguardo (1863), oil on canvas, 60 x 101.3 cm, The Tate...
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Watching a Mac losing its grip: background services are vital
Routine, background activities shouldn’t be run strictly by the clock. Traditional scheduling systems like Unix cron, and the Mac’s LaunchAgents, are fine for brief tasks which don’t put much load on...
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Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 22 – Perseus’ Wedding Feast
Ovid concluded Book 4 of his Metamorphoses at the wedding feast of Perseus and Andromeda, and it is there that he opens Book 5. Perseus has just finished his stories of how he beheaded Medusa, and how...
View ArticleAn Incomplete List of Sierra’s Dispatched Services
macOS Sierra’s background dispatching covers far more than just automatic Time Machine backups. When those become infrequent or irregular, or forgotten altogether, it means that all the other services...
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Figures in a Landscape: 3 Seeing the Andes
On 29 April 1859, the first of more than twelve thousand people walked into the Studio Building on West 10th Street in New York City, to stand in awe and amazement in front of Frederic Edwin Church’s...
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