Plutonic Rainbows

Pythonista

Incredible iOS application I only recently discovered. Now you can write Python anywhere. The price is £9.99 - very reasonable for what's inside. Head over to the iOS store for more details.

Thomas Harris - Cari Mora

Announced back in October 2018, this is the author's first novel in thirteen years.

Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.

Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.

Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.

Available to pre-order on Amazon.

HMV 1985

HMV photographed during the mid-1980s. I used to shop there. That was a long, long time ago.

RAW & HEIF

Shooting RAW images and looking at them after in the photo viewer with Halide, the camera seems to be taking a JPG rather than an HEIF file (even though I've specifically set it to shoot RAW/HEIF). I'm on an iPhone XS Max with all latest updates.

Decorations

Started putting up Christmas decorations these last few days. Also put up a link to some old photos from between 2006 and 2009. I'll leave it in the footer notes too.