Investor magazine journalists are so chav.

football supporter

football supporter

Bananas is not known for watching television, and when an email from a magazine investor used Corrie and somebody called Gail as an subject example i came to to the conclusion that this magazine and stuff are all chavs.

I have no idea who Gail is, and i think Corrie* is on chav and asbo channel (my blog) but it rather does note something about magazine writers.

* slang

The credit card which is a debit card 23% of the time

The monkey house has a credit card, it is paid off in full every month.  However recently we have seen an increasing number of cash fees.  Now we do not use it to get actual cash from a bank but use it for actual goods.  It is random and hard to predict.

Examples – Abe books [whom sell books] made our credit card a debit card most recently with foreign exchange costs, our ink supplier who was also a debt merchant soon went credit with no fees – its unpredictable .  That’s where i get a 23% figure from a year. Since i am unknowing did not know that the credit card turned into a debit card i am wonder if anybody else notices it.

The big fox and its problem for animal lovers.

Bananas was in the zoo when a large urban fox tried to pass unnoticed.  Its size gave it away.  One day the animal lovers or anti hunts people will face a problem when one of these eats a human.  There have already been babies attacked and have lost fingers and maulings to humans and attacks on farm livestock so I think the fox and these animal lovers will face a problem sooner rather than later.

It would nice to see a corporate manslaughter charge against the rspca (my blog) when a human death occurs.

dnssec’s small problems

gay oxbridge spies perfect government employees!

gay oxbridge spies perfect government employees!

Dnssec is a solution to a problem that does not yet seem to exist as a problem.  Very few people have it, and yes if you run your own nameservices then its easy.  However  i am unwilling to give up my existing global dns provider who does not support dnssec.

Nobody really supports it unless you have your own dns services and have them in the many global regions.  Its going to cost you, or if you go free then either your up for ‘inspection*’ by our nice american friends or Isreali snooping.

That seems to invalidate dnssec and perhaps explains why nobody uses it.  I would love to setup dnssec but the zoo does not have global dns provision, and yes while i could make nameservers service domain records that sets up a point of failure.

I sort of feel sorry for the dnssec cheerleaders and i would love to have a go it as it looks a bit like dkim.  Maybe next year i can revisit this, but i doubt its going to be doable or many people will even know about it.

* the nsa (my blog)

 

Microsoft fud and privacy

wenlock a policeman

wenlock a policeman

When i wrote this Microsoft was on its broken record about the lack of privacy from others, despite writing that train wreck internet explorer..  They cant discuss calea or fisa as the american law in question says they cant, so if you think that skype [owned by microsoft] conversation is unmonitored as your not an american think again*.

The twitter hashtag #windowsrage is also evidence that you can turn microsoft fud around and fling at any part of Mircosoft and it will stick.

Privacy is a funny thing, and app stores – which mircosoft has one too need information.  Many years ago before app stores i bought a shareware licence of winzip** whom was made by Niko Mac, he had my name address and other bits of info – in fact they once mailed a postal notice that there was a new release

According to Microsoft what i did with Mr Mac is a total privacy nightmare. That would seem to prove that Microsoft is anti commerce and thats where this beautiful turd of thinking by Steve Balmer and his acolytes fails.

Here we have a retarded fool spying on his customers, having no problems with that and asking for money and also get microsoft software to phone home.  Clearly with the amount of genius there Microsoft staff should awarded some kind of prize for the dumb say a Darwin award.

The good news is that as privacy is best then its totally  ok to not to pay Mircosoft for its software according to Microsoft logic.

* chinese people get a state censor with there skype calls (a three way call for the price of p2p). ** we have been a 100% windows free for over ten years.

Professor versus the ‘mobile phone professional’

really uncool

Professor at the zoo is not a big mobile phone user, his phone is ancient and just does phone and text all on pay as you go.  Its strictly an emergency device.  No it does not do internet.

He noticed the £10 on account does not go a long way so he tasked me to find a better deal.  I find a low line rental tariff per month plus calls although it needs an account.  Professor agrees that it is a good deal, and having unlocked the phones of the ancient in the past he is ready to order a sim card thing.

Months pass and he does not do it, its not like he is using it so its not an urgent matter.  eventually he reminds the monkey house that he wants to do it and the fun begins with the army of mobile phone professionals, whom can be compared with the electronics salesman.

Unless your in the world of the mobile phones its all jargon to professor and occasionally us too in the monkey house (we use a land-line*), being told look at the website and stuff which does not cover what a pac is – remember he is just a user.   Third call and lucky he finally gets the bit of metal ordered being he did not want the number transferred to the metal tag being we have an account with this supplier for other phone stuff.

In a way its amusing people say it hard to make sales and then professor shoots huge holes in that argument.  Funny breed this mobile phone professional.

* cheaper

Adventures in the orgasmatron, William Turner

isbn: 9780007181575 is an orwell prize listee, it also suffers from saint sigmund freud disease.    Wilhelm Reich being a johnny come lately to the Austrian ‘science; that is Freudian,  Although there’s more of the saint than herr Reich in the early chapters.

As to Reich, a book judging his views on sex, the marketing of a health box, and the foray into advertising all seems open to misjudgement.  To be honest i got bored with this very quickly and failed to finish this book as jew,marxism and nazism bingo words got added into the tale made me think is the author taking a didion line.

As to an orgasmatron, well that anarchy school with no lessons in Norfolk in England had one, but the perception of a nearby nuclear power plant seems to have stopped it working and that was the end of the quest of the orgasmatron on page 14 and then the saint sigmund crap that probably is in all books about brain theory about him become page filler.

Since im off topic along with the writer of this junk there was a film about the nice brain doctors that i thought looked good, but oddly it never got a release, or i missed the one performance of it.  Then again apparently we are all defective according to mental doctors, see if i am crazy so are you.

smile !

Anyhow there’s a monkey trying to mate with me here in the zoo right now and that’s way more fun. So 0/0 ids for the book.

Reich might have been alive for the flower power 1960′s thingy and be called a guru but if the author insists on hero worship of sigmund freud rather than focusing on Reich whom appears to be a man with a product rather than a theory which the author really wants to do then thats not my problem*.

Now i have a monkey to deal with.  Oook Oook

* Mr Turner writes articles for magazines, which isn’t a good sign.

Wrecking a community library persons perceptions.

monkeycoupleBananas visited the library now with new library helpers, and after picking up some reservations it was time to interact with the good citizens.

Naturally i owe money [the library is not "free"*] and so retrieve a sum in the region of £5 from my handbag.

I get a total newbie helper, so I grin like a chimp and allow me to blog what followed.

Newbie has issues with cntl alt and delete all a the same time so i.m warned this is going to take some time.

Having spotted the login issues I grin again (look you try and be a monkey) as its zero degrees outside and i am not in any panic to entertain zoo guests. Once real librarian has helped the other volunteer its my turn to get the attention via the other newbie in mist**.

Bonnets

Bonnets

The money is off-putting to newbie , after all its not just issuing books and any romantic ideas that people have about libraries that dont really exist in the ‘now’ that our helper seems to have, so that is left until last.  The books are issued after finally logging into the computer and the library system and three humans of varying skill insert the money into the back end processes.

Oh and my monkey jokes and banter fall on deaf ears.

* reading anything outside of the many large print mills and boon incurs a charge **  a joke

Wheres the beef?

whereisthebeefBananas enjoys a bbq-cued beef hamburger and normally has to make them from scratch and its realy simple with bowl, oil  and and bit of pepper (no egg).  Why well why supermarket equivalents look like a burger except they were not palatable.

In fact a little unpleasant, our burgers tasted of beef.

Then years later (today) it is let known that beef is horse [or pony] . a fact that has put a few off that beef on label thing in Tesco’s.

ponyCant blame them, mind you pony burger is tasty..

cowAnyhow that raises another point that if beef is not being sold and instead is replaced by pork,pony and horse what happens to the price of a cow it would seem to make the market price of beef a moot point.

So as less beef is really being sold should not the price of beef go up?

The replacing of meat for other meat is something the food industry (my blog) seems unwilling to admit is a problem, or something that is blameable to somebody else in our era of cheap food.