Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4-8-2020: Give Me a Glass of Champagne!

4th August, 2020.

Right … 

I think we can safely say I’ve finished the next article for PhoenixFM.

Once I’ve got a little polishing done … ?

I’ll send it off, and see if it gets accepted.

Here’s hoping it does.

I’ve got an idea for another, already.

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You possibly watch the technology news, don’t you … ?

If you do, you’ll noticed the fuss around Chinese video sharing site, TikTok.

There’s security concerns: that are serious enough for President Trump to want to ban TikTok’s use in the US.

I might possibly join, given that.

At ANY rate?   From what I can see the main concern — according to US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo — is that TikTok is passing on “facial recognition patterns, addresses, phone numbers and contacts” to Beijing.

Where it’s HQ is.

From the very little I know?

That’s exactly to sort of information US tech companies — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft — send to their HQs … to sell to advertisers.

I don’t see Trump banning them.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 29th May 2020.

29th May, 2020.

Yes: that video is my best effort at an impersonation of the late Vincent Price.

It is — I think — from The Fall of the House of Usher.

Or, more recently?   An episode of QI.

Remember the episode that sees Alan Davies breaking into Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable?

Yeah … that one … !

The reason I mention it?

Is because it gets used in the bloody song … which has been ear worming it’s way through my head for the past few days.

The damn thing!

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At ANY rate … ?

Remember me telling you I’d been in touch with Essex County Council?   To see what general policies they had, for helping low income families?

I’ve had to put that in as a Freedom of Information request, in case you’d missed yesterday’s post: something that could take up to twenty(20) days.

Here’s hoping that request is answered quickly.

At any rate … ?

I’m jobhunting, at the mo.

And very aware that BT offers a Basic Broadband service to those of who are struggling.   The deal works out at £10.07 for a router, landline and internet connection … with a data download limit of 15 gigabytes.

It’d be a serious step backwards for me: but, for some of my friends?

A hell of a lot better than their current non-existent deals.

So that’s something I’d suggest to people … but also got me thinking … 

What do other companies do?

From the little I know?   Most of us change our bank accounts very infrequently.   Equally, we change internet services providers, about as frequently.

If providers besides BT offered that sort of deal to the unemployed?

They, and we, could benefit.

So, with that in mind?   I’ve managed to get in touch with the Post Office, Sky and Virgin Media: to get a statement from them.

We’re going to have to see what happens.

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