Sunday, June 08, 2025

Configuring a computer for gallery use

This article will explain how to set up a Windows 11 Pro computer for unattended operation, for example when running a gallery installation or kiosk. This article is a companion to Remote Computer Access.

These articles do not assume that you are an expert, but do require you to be familiar with using Windows. If required, you can find more detailed tutorials online. My aim here is to be concise and precise since I have not yet found an overview of this kind.

Saturday, June 07, 2025

Remote computer access

I regularly create gallery installations where audiovisual material is run on a computer that a) might difficult to physically access, and b) must be run with the minimum of technical knowledge. In these cases it is much easier to administer the functionality using a second remote computer.

First, read Configuring a Computer for Gallery Use, which explains how to set up the host computer. Then return here.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

On democracy (from 2019)

As I wrote in 2019...

I am very sorry for my friends in Brazil. It is hard not to despair. 

Monday, February 17, 2025

Jobs I have done

Here are all the jobs I have had, but only including those for which I received compensation or official designation. Sometimes I even managed a working wage. 

This is why I've had a hard time being middle class. Though my "standing" has supported that label, the amount of labour I've performed merely to survive has me thinking that I am "working". 

Sunday, February 16, 2025

l'esprit de l'escalier

Being a collection of nonsense culled from everyday experience.

Fields have eyes but woods have ears.

As metaphors go, it doesn't hold a candle to the light fantastic at the end of the tunnel.

I may not be able to describe the processes in the heart of the sun, but I can still be warmed in its light.

Everything is a cynosure if you look the other way.