Lester's Rants

Well the new tax year is here, and while in the past my accountant would do the tax return on the 29th January next year, I don't have to wait for that now and the tax man is sitting on money I want back, so I need to do the accounts over the next week or so. The starting point of which is the paypal history file and the HSBC bank account statements. While in the past a full paypal dump would take a few hours, this one was available within 30 minutes. It's a pity that the HSBC account…

REMEMBER TO SAVE THE SCREEN BEFORE HITTING SAVE :( MUST ADDRESS THAT SECURITY VIOLATION! NOW TO TRY AND REMEMBER WHAT I HAD ADDED.

I am going around in circles on trying to upgrade to newer versions of software on the web stack. That my existing stack is working perfectly is demonstrated by the fact that I am writing these blog posts, and while there are niggles in some of the functionality, the content from 25 years of use is still fully accessibl…

The problems of daylight savings changes has been covered on the latest health post so I will not repeat that. The problem today is deciding just where I go on breaking the perfectly functional system that I am posting them on! I've already covered the problems of trying to get PHP code updatd so it continues to work on later versions of PHP. There may be 'problems' in PHP7.3 running on top of Firebird 3 and there are bugs that I need to address, but which don't stop the conte…

I do need to start sorting a list of priorities on jobs that I need to do rather than continually fire fighting. Wednesday I started having a quick look at why the map services were not working. This is actually something that has not been working for some time, and while it's not something I need working, it would be nice to restore. Getting back up to speed on this area has been hampered by my not having properly documented things…

With the lack of ANY decent on-line market place, we have to put up with the crap that those that do pretent to provide that service today. In addition to eBay and Amazon, the likes of The Range, B&Q and other on-line stores provide ways for other sellers to pretend to be bigger than they are and can hide behind their hosts customer servi…