Plutonic Rainbows

Packing

Started packing my stuff properly now. The magazines are boxed and I now need to get the paperwork put on the side and some more wrapping inside.

I also cleared out a good deal of the stuff I accumulated this past year that I won't need. It feels good to be finally getting my things ready to go back home.

The Circus

The race to the White House. Those that are running are some of the wealthiest, privileged people in the world and yet that is not enough. Somehow, their egos have deluded them into thinking they can run a country.

House of Cards

The 4th of March sees new episodes following the machiavellian Frank Underwood, who is now mid-election as sitting President of the United States - and has spared no-one along the way.

I am hoping for something better this time. The last season was slow and plodding with most of the surprises easy to predict.

Windows Phone

Tom Warren, The Verge:

With a lack of hardware, lack of sales, and less than 2 percent market share, it’s time to call it: Windows Phone is dead. Real Windows on phones might become a thing with Continuum eventually, but Windows Phone as we know it is done. It won’t stop Microsoft producing a few handsets every year as a vanity project, but for everyone else it’s the end of the line.

I don't think anyone ever thought this had a future.

Mike Oldfield

Next month sees the release of two albums from his work in the 1980s. The first is Discovery from 1984. The second is The Killing Fields, the soundtrack to the film of the same name released in 1985. Both releases feature new masterings and bonus tracks. The Japanese editions also come in paper jacket sleeves with SHM-CD discs.