Currently reading 'The Second Sleep' by Robert Harris with Ted Chiang's 'Exhalation' due to follow that. Finally, there is a new Stephen King novel, 'The Institute' which also looks interesting.
Films
August 18, 2019
Currently watching The Shape of Water. A few days ago I also saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Both were good movies.
Guardian Server Update
August 16, 2019
Finally Guardian VPN Firewall has added a UK server to its functionality - it was essentially useless before - blocking all streaming services. If you reset your configuration and are in the UK, you should now see london-ipsec-3
as your host server.
808 State Return
August 04, 2019
It's thirty years since they broke out with their album '90' in 1989. The album contained the stunning 'Pacific State' which became an instant classic. They finally return on October 11th with 'Transmission Suite', their first new album in almost twenty years.
You can watch a video for one of the tracks, 'Tokyo Tokyo' here.
Guardian Firewall for iOS
August 02, 2019
Guardian Firewall, a brand new VPN that claims to be the best iOS firewall on the market. It's proved useful so far ~~but who would ship a product that has a broken subscription sign-up panel? Hope they get that fixed asap~~.
Update: The subscription issue has been fixed but two problems are now quite pressing. Firstly, the settings tab is empty which is not good at all. Secondly, Guardian is setting my host server to somewhere in the US so this is playing havoc with streaming services that I use - Amazon Prime, Netflix, Apple TV etc.