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chinese big brother
What most of us internet users don't realize or fully appreciate is the extent to which our on-line activities are being monitored, recorded, stored, bundled and sold to advertisers (& other interested, and even more sinister, parties). We may be vaguely aware that "cookies" (activity trackers) are stored on our computers (which can & should be deleted in your browser's daily. I have recently enabled which, in real time, notifies you of other "trackers" of your activity & data -& will block such moles on request. For example, I searched for this evening. Ghostery informed me that it had blocked nine (yes 9) trackers on the page I found. Among them was this entity: How's that for jargon?? They are saying that they are tracking visitors to sites and selling the ISP addresses as well as other relevant information ( ie our other web searches, physical address, contacts age, sex, sexual preferences. income, race, location, sites,
crispy-skin duck
My buddy Laurie & I enjoyed a meal of crispy-skin duck on a bed of rice at Tai Ping Supermarket last week - this Saturday 22 Sept Tai Ping is holding an Asian Food Festival - stalls, classes, good food!!
another roast pig's head
The New World supermarket here in Brown's Bay is now selling 1/2 pig's heads for $3. Roasted (unbasted) for an hour and a half @ 180C makes for delicious crackling! I have been looking at some brawn recipies which use boiled pig's heads - coming up folks. See my youtube video on how to make this roast: .....and my food blog for further cooking adventures: http://sexybachelor.blogspot.co.nz/
foraging in browns bay
Today Laurie & I went foraging in our local neighbourhood & found some wild edibles. Read more @ www.trash-zilla.blogspot.com
road trip
I took a brief roadtrip to Hamilton with my friend Laurie Santell. We took a walk around the botanical gardens. There three loungers were in the American Garden...
annual trash trawl
The annual inorganic roadside trash collection has begun in my area. I cruised around in the van on Sunday & scored a 25kg bag of cement. This year there are even more people trawling through the kerbside offerings - most of them after scrap metal, but there are lots of other goodies and freebees out there as well.