Archive for August, 2009
Radians
No, I’m not talking about the alien-worshipping religion (which is the Raelians anyway); I’m referring to the world’s most pointless rotation / angle measurement.
Everyone on the planet knows about degrees: 360 degrees in a perfect circle; 90 degrees is a quarter; 120 degrees is a third, so on and so forth. Standard mathematical measurement for [...]
Apparently, I have two 1997 Seat Arosas
At least, this is what my insurance company seems to think, since they are charging me for two policies.
I’m currently on the phone to them, and I’ve been informed by the call centre minion that he can only check the details on one of the two policies as they have two completely separate systems. Riiiight… [...]
VAT and foreign websites
A lot of people reading this blog will be aware that the EU has a tax on non-essential items which, in the UK, is called Value-Added Tax, or VAT. The annoyance of VAT itself aside, it is a legal requirement for sites to support it when selling things for VAT-registered entities based in the EU. [...]
Bureaucracy
Today I found out that our delivery driver had been fined by his employer because of a rounding error on a dispatch label.
We sent out a 10g - yes, 10 gramme - item through their site, printed off all the correct labels, etc, and dispatched it in one of their small item envelopes - lets [...]