Lester's Rants

Have spent two hours trying to work out why the drop-downs were not working again. I'd duplicated everything from the development machine which is working fine, but no joy. Had a long session with Claude again and learnt a lot about debugging the JavaScript stuff so not a total waste of time, but while we had said make sure the files are the same ... which they were in BeyondCompare! The missing question was "are you looking at the actual copies being used?". I'd not actuall…

Five weeks on after the latest request about using the loft space here and still no reply from Rooftop to my Rooftop Alteration Request. There should have been a responce in two weeks but despite a number of chases nothing has happened yet. SO time to fire up the complaints process yet again. Something that a recent public meeting at the Rooftop office was held to review the process which it was decided should not even be necessary?

The request is simply to make the loft space safe…

I am due a tax refund from June last year. Even without the loss on the business accounts, the amount of PAYE taken was too much as the tax code was wrong, but after the business accounts were added in April then the whole amount became refundable. What I failed to appreciate back in April was that the tax return SHOULD have shown that refund, but the way I read things was that other checks would check what was owing. The system went on to explain that processing a refund would take at least…

Earlier this month I made a submission to the IAB/W3C Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access with a view to getting a place at it. I was not anticipating that I would even though I have been dealing with the fallout from unregulated content management for a number of years so was not surprised when my application was declined, but having spent a lot of time building the submission I'm ((Submission to IAB…

The last few weeks have been a lot more productive and things are now falling into place. One area of debate is just what material is 'Public Domain', and I've been checking into the various sources. I make no apology for using torrent to tidy up my own off-ait recording library. Pruning the adverts takes time, and so sharing the load with others just makes sense. Is this 'fair use', or is the problem stripping the adverts added by the broadcasters to cover their costs. Ju…