Happy Easter
The Christian view of Easter deepens with time. Victory over the tomb points to a greater reality.
Christianity
2014
105 posts
Good Friday
The Christian view of Good Friday deepens with time. The cross points to a greater reality of love and justice.
Christianity
What is appinstalld?
If you see appinstalld running on your Mac, here is what this app installation process does.
Mac
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is unexpectedly entered into the dangerous Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts, facing deadly tasks and the return of Voldemort.
Books
Monthly update #0287 • March 2014
Monthly update 287 • March 2014 • 2014-03-01 - 2014-03-31
Monthly Updates
De Cock en een deal met de duivel by A.C. Baantjer
A member of a drug gang has vanished and seems to have been killed and hidden with care. De Cock investigates whether it is a contract killing.
Books
What is NetworkLinkConditioner?
If you see NetworkLinkConditioner on your Mac, here is what this network testing tool does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0092 • March 2014
March 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden revelations about mass hacking and whole country call recording, alongside a European backlash, corporate encryption moves and a wave of payment card breaches.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0046 • February 2014
The month a small democracy voted to control its own borders and Brussels promptly froze it out of student exchanges, then graded all twenty-eight members on corruption while quietly omitting itself.
Eurobloat
What is pcapd?
If you see pcapd running on your Mac, here is what this network capture process does.
Mac
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban follows Harry’s third year at Hogwarts, where escaped convict Sirius Black, believed to be a murderer, hunts him.
Books
Useful macOS defaults: Launch Services
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.LaunchServices, controlling quarantine warnings and file associations.
Mac
De Cock en de dood in antiek by A.C. Baantjer
A young woman tells De Cock that a bronze sarcophagus has been stolen from her, and that a curse rests on it. He is sceptical at first, but the case soon turns serious.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0091 • February 2014
February 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden revelations, the launch of The Intercept and a day of global protest, set against a run of data breaches and surveillance climbdowns.
Privacy
Monthly update #0286 • February 2014
Monthly update 286 • February 2014 • 2014-02-01 - 2014-02-28
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0045 • January 2014
January 2014: Brussels opened its borders, lectured Malta for selling passports, set itself a 2030 to-do list, and decided which European banks were allowed to be too big to fail.
Eurobloat
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry returns to Hogwarts for his second year, facing a hidden threat as a mysterious force petrifies students.
Books
What is lsd?
If you see lsd running on your Mac, here is what this Launch Services process does.
Mac
Homebrew - Difference between brew and brew cask
Homebrew has two main commands: brew for command-line tools and brew cask for graphical applications. Here is how they differ.
Mac
De Cock en de onsterfelijke dood by A.C. Baantjer
A man with a limp comes to De Cock. He had sought help for chronic leg pain from a faith healer, but she has suddenly disappeared.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0090 • January 2014
January 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden documents on NSA and GCHQ surveillance, a wave of retail and corporate data breaches in the wake of Target, and the first official pushback on bulk telephone records.
Privacy
MKTileOverlay, MKMapSnapshotter & MKDirections
iOS 7 quietly brought three powerful new MapKit tools that fixed many old complaints about Apple Maps. Together these solved the biggest developer gripes: ugly base maps, no static map images, and no routing. Even today they remain some of the most generous (and under-used) mapping APIs on iOS.
Development
Monthly update #0285 • January 2014
Monthly update 285 • January 2014 • 2014-01-01 - 2014-01-31
Monthly Updates
What is smbd?
If you see smbd running on your Mac, here is what this file sharing process does.
Mac
All Is Lost
All Is Lost (2013), directed by J.C. Chandor, is a stark, gripping survival drama. Robert Redford delivers a powerful, nearly wordless performance as a lone sailor battling the elements after his yacht is damaged at sea.
Movies