Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 3-9-2026 — San Marino

3rd September, 2026: San Marino.

Right, then … it’s officially Thursday … !

And Radio Four’s Today programme has been telling us they’re marking Norman Day.

In other words, they’re marking the Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066: some 960 years ago.

And covering one specific thing: the fact the millennia-old Bayeux Tapestry, the Tapestry made by the Normans to mark their success, is currently on display at the British Museum.

I doubt I’ll have the chance.

But I’d love to see that: it’s an authentic piece of history!

~≈🏰≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 20-7-2026 — Colombia

20th July, 2026: Colombia.

Right … it’s Monday, again.

And … ?

After taking weight loss medication, last Friday, it’s time for me to head for my weight loss weigh in.

Keep you’re fingers crossed, please: while you’re doing that, I’ll be hoping the bag of crisps I had, yesterday, won’t show up!

~≈🥨≈~

Andy Burnham* gets sworn in as Prime Minister, today.

I wish him luck: although my cynical side has a question.

When exactly, will he resign?

We’ve got through a few PMs, since 2016.

~≈🔟≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 9-7-2026 — Argentina

9th July, 2026: Argentina.

It’s official: I’ve uploaded a video!

But you’ve possibly guessed that.

And possibly already noticed that uploading a video to tell you I’ve uploaded a video seems a little recursive.

For want of a better word!

At any rate?

I caught the first episode of For All Mankind’s new series: and thought I should tell you about it!

~≈👨‍🚀≈~

Oh … the BBC’s new site released this article, a few days ago: telling us many companies are renting out robots, and questioning what use the robots are.

It’s mostly entertainment ones getting rented out, it seems: ones doing tasks that are easy to program.

That’s not necessarily caught my attention, though.

The simple fact that companies are renting out robots is what caught me.

Why?

Because renting out electronics is an old idea: Brentwood had a branch of Radio Rentals, after all.

That’s not the first thing I thought of, though.

No.

I thought of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot.

That’s the first place I saw the idea … !

~≈🤖≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-7-2026 — New Brunswick. (Ten Questions)

1st July, 2026: New Brunswick.

I think it’s official.

No, I know it’s official.

It’s Wednesday!

Although quite why I thought it was Tuesday, I don’t know.

I spent most of Friday, just gone, convinced it was Saturday.

Why do people’s brain do that?

Tell them it’s Day A, when it’s actually Day B?

I wish I knew.

It would possibly explain a lot!

~≈📆≈~

On other fronts?

I had a letter, the other day: from the NHS hospital that had carried out my most recent stool sample tests.

The letter told me I was — thankfully! —   free of any issues.

I have to admit to mixed feelings.

On the one hand, ‘free of any issues’ means I have nothing that needs removing.

No polyps, no cancerous bodies.

It also means I’ve avoided a colonoscopy.

Which is a good thing: as effective as they are, they’re not exactly comfortable!

On the other hand?

I’ve got the worry that the test has missed something.

And that — as uncomfortable as the procedure is — having a colonoscopy means I could be certain I’m free of bowel cancer.

It’s … well … 

It’s a mixed result, I think.

~≈🚑≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 31-3-2026 — Newfoundland

31st May, 2026: Newfoundland.

Right, then: today is a day of general overexcitement.

Or possibly general yayness.

Because?

At yesterday’s weigh-management weigh-in, I found I’d lost some eight hundred grams: about one and three quarter pounds.

That’s good: so long as I can avoid treating myself to a bag of crisps*!

~≈🍟≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 10th March 2026

10th March, 2026.

 

 

Right, then: I had a late night, last night.

Posting the latest in a series of reviews!

As I think that review — and today’s intro — show, I’m gradually getting the hand of Final Cut Pro: although a better camera may help.

Either way … ?

I’m just grateful that — in today’s introduction video — I manage to use the Magnetic masking effect: to remove the background in a few seconds of video that needed it.

Hopefully?

Both it and the review, do well.

~≈$≈~

Hmmm … 

Right at the moment, I’m feeling slightly stressed.

As … ?

I have a dentist appointment at 12·30.

So I’d like to get out sharpish.

But … ?

The video version of today’s Teaser is taking a devil of a time to upload and process.

Why … ?

I don’t know.

But it’s a little worrying … !

~≈🚇≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1/3/2026 — Nebraska (Ten Questions)

1st March, 2026: Nebraska.

I like somethings: and dislike others.

But you’ve possibly worked that out.

I don’t like the current, 47th, US President.

And make it a point of honour to not use the man’s name.

I don’t know if I’ve managed there, but I can at least try.

I don’t like unnecessary military action: at least, action I feel is unjustified.

So … ?

USA military action in Iran, taken in conjunction with Israel, is what I regard as unjustified.

I grant the Islamic republic’s unpleasant, and has violated the rights, and taken the lives of, protestors.

Furthermore?

The action taken has seen the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

If that doesn’t start a war?

I’ll be both grateful, and very surprised.

~≈🇮🇷≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 7-2-2026 — Grenada

7th February, 2026: Grenada.

Yay!

It’s Saturday … !

Which means … it’s the day after Friday, the day after I had an electrician visit.

It’s something I’d arranged a couple of weeks ago: as I’d had a couple of minor — very minor — electric shocks from the old switch.

Something the electrician told me wasn’t too risky: but agreed that I right in requesting the repair.

I was better safe than sorry.

~≈💡≈~

Just as a quick question … ?

I use Transmission if I ever need to download stuff via torrent: there’s a lot of open source software you can get that way.

Are you using it, as well?   Version 4·10, on a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26·2?

Are you getting problems?

Funny error messages, non-existent progress bars, what have you?

If you do, and have successfully done something about it, can you let me know, please?

Cheers!

~≈⚙️≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 11-1-2026 — Morocco

11th January, 2026.

Right … sauce … 

I’ve actually managed to make some spaghetti sauce, last night.

Just not very good spaghetti sauce!

I’m convinced I didn’t use enough tomatoes: and it’s not as creamy as it could be.

Frankly?

It’s more a spaghetti stew, a stew you can put on top of spaghetti.

Still: I’ve five more tubs of the stuff.

And I can always have it with potatoes, if I didn’t fancy pasta!

~≈🍝≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-8-2025 — Benin.

1st August, 2025: Benin.

Right, I’m up and about.

Obviously!

And … ?

I’m very aware that it’s Friday, so I’ll be having a phone appointment with my surgery’s nurse practitioner.

To talk about how I’m doing with the blood sugar monitor: and the larger lancets I’ve been given.

To be honest with you … ?

I’ve managed to successfully do three tests over the past week: tests that showed results of 6·3, 8·6 and 5·8, for an average of 6·9: just inside the safe range.

That’s more, and better, results than I had with the original lancets: they did diddly squat!

Quote where we go from here, I don’t know!

~≈🪡≈~

Here in the UK … ?

Here in the UK, the government has introduced new regulations: designed to make sure adult websites do age-verification checks on users.

That seems to have worked!

For starters, many iPhone users have installed VPNs, virtual private networks software, that lets them get around the UK restrictions by routing traffic through other countries.

For another?

You can reach these sites on the desktop by using the Tor browser*: which routes things through various layers.

There’s a version on the Google Play store, if you’re on an Android phone.

And finally … ?

It seems Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulators, are investigating thirty-four sites that haven’t introduced the checks.

That makes me conclude a few things.

Restrictions can be avoided.

And regulations can be ignored.

That’s assuming we can work out how.

Working out how is easier than it looks.

~≈🧅≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-7-2025 — Quebec (Ten Questions)

1st July, 2025: Quebec.

Right … 

It’s official.

It’s just gone 7:30 on a July morning.

And … ?

The thermostat in the hallway is telling me it’s 26.5℃ in here.

The weather’s going to get warmer.

And … ?

I think I’m going to get sweatier, today … !

Ho … hum … !

~≈☀️≈~

You know, tech news is something that interests me.

So does the gossip.

Something that did catch my attention?

Is the gossip that says that Apple are potential going to be introduction a model of MacBook Air — their lightweight laptop — with an A18 processor.

The processor that powers recent models of iPhones.

There’s possibly a couple of points, there.

I know that — when he rejoined the company in the 1990s — former CEO, Steve Jobs, culled a lot of Mac models: so the company could reduce manufacturing costs

Will this leave the company vulnerable?

I don’t know: but it’s something the management team may need to keep their eyes on.

The other?

Is that the possible model is supposed to be the new low-end, cheap, option.

Roughly equivalent to the current £999 option.

Will that work for them?

Would that appeal to those who would otherwise buy a cheap Windows machine?

Or a Chromebook?

We’ll have to see: a lot of that appeal will come down to price-point …

~≈🧑🏻‍💻≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-3-2025 — Ohio.

1st March, 2025: Ohio.

I think it’s official: I had a late night, last night.

Please don’t ask why!

It’s complicatedly messy!

At any rate … ?

I’ll have the film review up, later: once I’ve had more sleep … !

~≈🛌≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-4-2024 — Nunavut

1st April, 2024: Nunavut.

It’s Monday!

And I think I’ve — partially — solved a problem.

I have a new Mac — thanks, once again, to a lot of helpful friends and family! — that I’m slowly getting used to using.

And that — wouldn’t you know it? — has run out of main drive space, already!

I’m thankful I know how to get around that: by moving a large media library — one where I store large video files — from the main drive, to an external one.

Hopefully, that will help*.

If not … ?

I could be looking at re-setting the operating system … three months after being bought the thing!

~≈💻≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 14-2-2024 — Raisin’ Arizona

14th February, 2024: Raisin’ Arizona.

Yes: it’s Saint Valentine’s Day!

And … ?

Yes: I’m not expecting a card!

Saying that?   The last one I got, was anonymous, a long time ago, and very appreciated.

Especially if it was from I think it was from.

They were gorgeous!

~≈❤️≈~

Oh, if you’re in the UK … ?

And use the iPlayer on a desktop, or laptop?

It seems the BBC’s iPlayer service will — from 11th March, this year — no longer allow downloads to Macs or PCs.

Apparently?

It’s costing them more money than it’s making them.

I can’t complain too much: as that was never something I used.

It just surprises that Aunty hadn’t done so, already.

~≈📺≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 2-12-2023 — Laos.

2nd December, 2023: Laos.

Right … it’s Saturday.

And A Tribe Called Quest’s “Can I Kick It?” is playing in the background.

Because?

Well, I fancied something musical.

And, if you’re going to listen to a song with a sampled bassline, listening to one that samples Lou Reed’s “Walk On the Wildside” is a good start … 

At any rate … ?

It’s still Saturday.

Lord knows what I’ll be doing for most of it.

But watching — and reviewing — “Wild Blue Yonder” will be involved.

~≈Ω≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-10-2023 — Tuvalu

1st October, 2023: Tuvalu.

It’s officially the case that a man in went of a bed … 

Never gets enough sleep!

But … ?

At least I’ve finished a video review … !

Yay!

~≈Ω≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 25-9-2023 — Nepal.

25th September, 2023: Nepal.

Yep: it’s Monday, again.

And … ?

I think I’m going to be busy, today.

I’ve my weight management program, this morning, some printing and posting to do, lunchtime … 

And my nephew, this afternoon.

‘Busy,’ possibly doesn’t even start … !

~≈®≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 26-7-2023 — A New York State of Mind.

26th July, 2023: A New York State of Mind.

Yes: it’s now officially Wednesday.

And events will no doubt be eventuating.

Which is nice!

Frankly?

Beyond going shopping, I’ve little to do.

We’ll have to see what I can find.

~≈®≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 22-7-2023 — Belgium

22nd July, 2023: Belgium.

It’s official.

It’s the day after payday: and the day after I went shopping.

And I’m mildly kicking myself.

There’s always something I forget!

~≈ß≈~

Oh … I’m very aware many matches — of football, snooker, tennis, and many other things — can be interrupted.

For all sorts of reasons.

One of the oddest?

Was yesterday.

It seems a Gateshead FC match was called off, yesterday.

As a hearse was driven onto the pitch.

That’s odd.

But not necessarily as cute as the squirrel that invaded Arsenal’s pitch, a few years ago.

~≈ß≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 15-7-2023 — Manitoba

15th July, 2023: Manitoba.

It’s official: it’s Saturday.

And … ?

Frankly, my pharmacist text messaged, last night: to let me know my next set of medications have turned up.

So it’s a case of getting into town, pick up the meds, finish a review, baby sit my nephew, make at least one video, have something to eat … 

And, possibly, have another cup of tea.

Heigh … ho!

~≈¥≈~