Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 28th May 2026.

28th May, 2026.

Right … I had my nephew, Jude, over, last night.

And yes: he’d appreciate your help.

Yes: Jude needs you to hit the ‘Like’ button on his lates video!

He’d be thankful, if you did … !

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On other fronts … ?

I’ve had a blu-ray delivered: a 4k copy of the Dr Who TV movie, that I tried ripping, yesterday.

I use an app called MakeMKV to copy discs: it’s copied every single 2k disc I’ve thrown at it for the past few years, remarkable well.

But occasionally … ?

It has issues with 4k videos.

Issues that mean updating its library of decryption keys.

After emailing what’s called an ‘AACS .tgz dump file’ to svq@makemkv.com

Something that I did, last night.

Hopefully?

I’ll be ably to copy and transcode the thing, soon.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 27th May 2026

27th May, 2026.

Yes: it’s official: I’ve had a blu-ray delivered.

And have another on the way.

The one I had delivered, yesterday, was the 4k version of the Dr Who TV movie.

Which I haven’t seen in years, so I’m looking forward to seeing it, again.

I’ve also had a charging dock delivered: for the game controller I got, a few weeks ago.

Which I’ll have to use, at some point: once the plug for it, turns up!

At any rate … the first blu-ray I ordered has turned up.

The second, a copy of Village of the Damned, is due on Monday.

Heigh … ho!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 26-5-2026 — Miles Davies (Ten Questions)

26th May, 2026: Miles Davis.

Right … who on Earth was that all about … ?

“What?”, I hear you ask?

Someone rang my doorbell, this morning: at god knows what time of the morning.

Not that I mind … but it would be nice if someone said something.

Heigh … ho … 

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I think we can safely say the UK’s having a heatwave: as, the day before yesterday, reached record temperatures.

32·3℃, in some parts of the country.

Yesterday, parts of the country reached 34·8℃.

And today … ?

There’s predictions it’s going to hit 35℃.

I think I’m going to have to do a couple of things.

Have salad for dinner: turning on the oven’s going to be uncomfortable.

Make sure I put my newly cleaned t-shirts on to the airer: rather than in the tumbler.

Oh … and think of other ways to cool my flat.

Today’s going to be warm … 

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24-5-2026 — Football Crazy

25th May, 2026: Football Crazy.

Hmmm … 

Yesterday was Sunday, 24th May, 20026.

You knew that: you can check a calendar as easily as I can.

It turns out that — going by the relevant BBC News page — it was the hottest day in May for some years: some seventy-nine of them.

It hit 32·3℃ in parts of the UK.

And is expected to get hotter, today.

It’s on days like this, I think a few things.

One?

Closing the curtains could help keep my flat cool: especially in the front room.

Two?

Opening the windows could help!

I think I’m going to need the draft … !

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24th May 2026.

24th May, 2026.

Have you ever heard of a TV series called The Blacklist?

YouTube’s been throwing clips of the James Spader vehicle at me for the past few weeks.

So, late last night, I was clicking around on the Apple TV, floated over to the Channel 4 catch-up app … and noticed they had it available.

So I watched the first episode.

It’s a great deal of fun.

Granted, this opening episode seems similar to The Silence of the Lambs.

But Spader’s charismatic in the central role, Megan Boone* as Elizabeth Keen comes over as intelligent, and the episode jogs along at a good pace.

And one character seems to be named after Robert Ressler.

This could be worth watching … 

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