And Then, Up It Goes…

   I see that Steer Calmer’s having a spot o’ bother with his over-loaded mantelpiece. Nothing for us down here to concern ourselves with so just move quickly on to something wot does concern an ever diminishing number of us down here. And that would be? The cost of the licence to allow us to use the televisual receiving device is going up again. Well, so, I now understand a little better why this is required.
   The other evening my little nest of vipers wanted to watch something and fired the box up. It lit up as the credits of a just finished quiz show were rolling along. Ever watched those? Seems a program involving four folk on screen requires something aproaching a thousand folk behind the scenes. One ‘job’ wot caught my eye was that of the ‘Applause Coordinator’. See wot we’re paying for?
   Also, as mentioned before, if the BooBeCee is feeling the pinch, shut down all the money prize quiz shows, right? And, again as previously posted, I don’t see why us wot are here should pay for this stuff wot’s free for folk far, far away.

Quote; Bertrand Russell.

“Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.”

And Then, Wot To Believe…

   It’s been a busy time wot with one thing an’ another. Anyhoo, here’s a possibly unnecessary ‘warning’ to y’all.
   Recently, I’ve been receiving an Email from LinkedIn with the same subject line, every two or three daze. No idea. Just delete. Then, out of the blue, I got an Email from an almost forgotten buddy I worked with a very long, long time ago asking for help stating he was very ill and unable to use the inter-web thus asking if I’d go up that big river online shop and purchase a phone voucher for an equally ill relation of his. He’d send details of where to send voucher details and he’d reimburse me right away. Yeah, right. Delete. Had one of those? Be on your guard; after a quick search on Giggle I got some details here.
   Then a phone call from my neighbourhood energy advisor. Yet another yeah, right.
Damn! Is anything safe these daze? Do you have to think through every call and mail you receive? Consider every clicky thingy you’re about to do? Short answer, yes... Suspect phone call asking questions? Never answer and never, never answer ‘Yes’ as they record all and can edit calls and possibly use ‘yes’ for other nefarious purposes.
   Net result? Just in case, It all brought forward the annoying, time consuming, various critical password changing task.

Quote; Frank Stallone.

“Curiosity pulls people into the scam.”

And Then, Sorry For The Absence…

 ...but the urge to sit and tap stuff on the tap-top seems to be rapidly diminishing. As for the old saying early to bed early to rise makes a a man happy, wealthy and wise, well, hard to be happy with the state of things is it not? Wealthy as it’s tax paying month? As for the wise bit, wot does that even mean?
   Anyhoo, also recently had a couple of brushes with naughty stuff. First was a phone call pretending to be from a bank pertaining to the use of bank card at a supermarket. Y’all had one of those? Then an Email from DVLA stating I’m late paying my road tax. Even knowing it to be fake, I clicked the link to see how good a copy of the official Web sight it might be.
   Then it got interesting as, after doing the clicky bit, I was greeted by Fire-Fox showing me a bright red screen and text telling me they will NOT allow access as the address is very naughty.
   This got me thinking regards a world over crowded with scams and powered by computer. If a browser can spot and block a bad boy  you would think, as every phone number is known to land-line and mobile operators and Email providers likewise with addresses and with the modern might of computers showing they can find you in a heart beat if you send a supposedly naught tweet, that they’d be able to detect bad stuff and owners of bad numbers an’ such, block ‘em and alert the relevant authorities, right?

Quote; Joseph Addison.

“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”