Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4th May 2023.

4th May, 2023.

It’s got to be said: it’s voting day, today, in this part of the world’s Local Elections.

Local Elections for local people: they don’t want strangers here.

If you’ll forgive me quoting The League of Gentlemen.

At ANY rate, it’s local election day: and, frankly?

I’m planning my usual thing: and planning to spoil my vote.

To me, it makes sense as a protest vote: especially as I see no-one I want to vote for.

Including the local Tories.

I grant you, the current crop genuinely seem to want to build a cinema in town: that still doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for them.

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Yes: it’s officially official.

Jude’s made another video.

And, as fun as it was, making it … ?

It’s not the one I know he wanted to make.

He’s got a GoPro camera, so you know: one that can record in 4k.

Which is where the problem starts: we’ve figured out how to sync his camera with various phones, and copy the footage to them …

But then uploading them to various free cloud services — Google Drive, in this case —, so we can download them to my computer … 

Is a serious faff.

It took me seven hours, overnight, to upload a two minute video to my Drive.

Faff?   Is possibly understating it!

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I’m also very aware of something else.

The trailer for Dune Pt 2* has dropped: and looks interesting.

The fact I know one of the characters depicted is called Harah … is almost incidental!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4th May, 2018.

4th May, 2018.

Yes: I’m officially wish a Happy Birthday, Mum!

Ahem!

If anyone else want’s to do the same, they’d be perfectly welcome to!

She’d appreciate it.

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At ANY rate, and on other fronts … ?

We had a local election, yesterday.   Brentwood — at least Brentwood West, the ward I live in — now has an extra Liberal Democrat.

And that's all the results in for the Brentwood Borough elections #LocalElections2018 pic.twitter.com/nTOFr4O0t5

— Brentwood Council (@Brentwood_BC) May 3, 2018

Personally … ?

I went for Labour, myself.

Mostly?

Because the Greens weren’t standing in Brentwood West, this year.

Shame, that.

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I’m also aware that in some boroughs?   There’s been a trial of voter ID: you have to take ID with you, to be able to vote.

According to Radio Four?   People have been turned away.

I hope this scheme does not go any further.

I personally, couldn’t afford to get a photographic drivers license, or passport: the standard pieces of ID that are being requested.

I suspect I’m not the only person in Brentwood who is in the same shoes.

Personally?

I think I, and others, would be be denied a vote, as a result.

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And finally … !

Finally, and in other news … ?

Twitter have advised three hundred and thirty million users to change their passwords: myself included.

Apparently?

The bulk of those passwords had not been lack from the site’s storage servers.

But had been stored in plain text: unencrypted, and with not protection, in other words.

I’ve changed mine: you might want to do likewise … 

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The Daily Teaser — 4-5-2015

Have you been following the UK’s election … ?

No … ?   Yes … ?

I have.   It’s fascinating to see, sometimes.

Personally, I’ve been trying to follow the Leaders Debates, where possible.

Last night … ?   Last night saw the Scottish Leaders Debate screened on the BBC News Channel: and on the BBC in Scotland.

What grabbed me about it?   Was the fire.

Oh, not an actual fire.   Just the sheer passion of the leaders on the stands: Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP, Ruth Davison of the Scottish Tories, Jim Murphy of Scottish Labour and Willie Rennie of the Scottish Lib Dems.

I was impressed: especially by Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP and Ruth Davison of the Scottish Conservatives.

Jim Murphy seemed a little more genuine than his Westminster equivalent, Ed Milliband.

And even Willie Rennie seemed on a par with party leader, Nick Clegg: although given a choice between the two, I’d’ve go for Nick Clegg.

Ever away … ?

I have to ask … can we import the Scottish party leaders into Westminster?

Collectively, they seemed a lot more passionate, and sincere, than their UK equivalents.

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