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<title>Book-Madness Blog</title><link>http://www.book-madness.com/index.php</link><description>News from Tiger of the Stripe</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>Tiger of the Stripe</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2009 Tiger of the Stripe</dc:rights><dc:date>2012-04-18T16:11:10+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:26:52 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>Online Job Sites</title><dc:creator>Tiger of the Stripe</dc:creator><category>internet</category><dc:date>2012-04-18T16:11:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/2c36a5e41641ec63697b425be323f3f4-97.php#unique-entry-id-97</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/2c36a5e41641ec63697b425be323f3f4-97.php#unique-entry-id-97</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[You know, you give them your details, tell them what sort of job you&rsquo;re looking for and they send you details of suitable jobs.   Well, that&rsquo;s the way it is supposed to work. 


The way it actually works is that they send me totally unsuitable jobs.   There are plenty of jobs for HGV drivers in Walsall.   The only trouble is that I don&rsquo;t have an HGV licence and I live at the other end of the country.   Nearer to home, there are plenty of jobs for financial analysts, but I&rsquo;m not a financial analyst.


More bizarrely, they sent me details of a job as a DJ for a gay, black radio station &ndash; or, rather, I imagine they mean a radio station for gay black people. ...  As far as I am aware, I&rsquo;m white and heterosexual and, with some exceptions, my favourite music isn&rsquo;t much more recent than Handel.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Accountants &#x2013; The Scourge of Business</title><dc:creator>Tiger of the Stripe</dc:creator><category>Money</category><category>Business</category><category>accountancy</category><dc:date>2012-04-09T10:52:23+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/fd6e5a1354c03dc74e96f9e0227be084-96.php#unique-entry-id-96</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/fd6e5a1354c03dc74e96f9e0227be084-96.php#unique-entry-id-96</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[However, the complex business of submitting accounts for a limited company to Companies House and HMRC is so time-consuming and expensive that it is surprising there are so many SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) around. 

...That, in itself, would be bad enough, but HMRC doesn&rsquo;t provide any mechanism for creating the full accounts in the required iXBRL. ...  As far as I can see, there is no way to do this unless you fill in the short accounts, which you shouldn&rsquo;t do if you&rsquo;re attaching full accounts.


...I&rsquo;m converting my accounts to iXBRL using a template from TaxCalc and I&rsquo;m going to submit the tax return, with the converted accounts attached, using CallCredit Ftax.   However, all this is taking up weeks of my time in which I cannot be earning money, either for myself or the the Exchequer.


...Many people who have used solicitors to handle probate will probably have a sense of d&eacute;j&agrave; vu reading about the relative merits of employing a professional.   In my experience, it is far quicker and easier to handle probate yourself than to pay a solicitor to do it.   The few thousand pounds you pay for such services are really beneath their contempt, so the work is handed to some over-worked dullard (of which there seems to be a plentiful supply in solicitors&rsquo; offices). ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hot Cross Buns and British Decline</title><dc:creator>Tiger of the Stripe</dc:creator><category>food</category><category>Politics</category><category>Money</category><dc:date>2012-04-05T17:07:35+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/f8c28160c670c3bc3f84b1f739a81722-95.php#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/f8c28160c670c3bc3f84b1f739a81722-95.php#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[When I was young hot cross buns were only available on Good Friday and possibly the day before. ...  It is rather like the extended celebration of Guy Fawkes Night which is both tedious and unnecessary.


What I really lament, though, is the passing of the Baker&rsquo;s Dozen which ensured that one received thirteen buns for the price of twelve.   Even more generous was the baker&rsquo;s half-dozen &ndash; seven for the price of six. ...  It is not a productive industry; it sucks out what little profit British companies make and creates no wealth itself.


...However, even they will be seen as a sign of decline by devout Christians and the pedants of all faiths and none. ...  They are hot buns rather than hot cross buns and soon they will have cooled and be just buns.


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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Animation using Tumult Hype</title><dc:creator>Tiger of the Stripe</dc:creator><category>HTML5</category><category>animation</category><category>Javascript</category><category>Flash</category><dc:date>2012-03-30T10:45:55+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/935ce94a290a98ff736b719bb959848e-94.php#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/935ce94a290a98ff736b719bb959848e-94.php#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="diagonal_hype_container" style="position:relative;overflow:hidden;width:600px;height:400px;">


		<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://www.book-madness.com/resources/diagonal_Resources/diagonal_hype_generated_script.js?

...With Flash falling out of favour, web designers have been searching for new ways of creating animation using what is loosely called HTML5 but which is just a mixture of html, Javascript and CSS3.   It has some way to go before it can provide all the features which Flash offers but Hype from Tumult is an easy-to-use program which seems well on the way to being a Flash replacement.   The above animation is a simple example of what can be achieved with it in a few minutes.


Other examples can be seen on my danckwerts.co.uk website.


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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Funding Political Parties</title><dc:creator>Tiger of the Stripe</dc:creator><category>Politics</category><category>Money</category><dc:date>2012-03-27T11:01:43+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/4dd7d39c5b34db3eaac5986c4c425a67-93.php#unique-entry-id-93</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/4dd7d39c5b34db3eaac5986c4c425a67-93.php#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Every time there is any suggestion of scandal relating to fundraising by political parties, commentators suggest that the answer is for the parties to be funded by the taxpayer. 

...The party with the best advertising campaign wins and the quality of the advertising campaign has little to do with how expensive it was or how good the party&rsquo;s policies are.


...The British National Party has, probably, the fifth largest share of the vote but it would surely be extremely obnoxious for the taxpayer to be obliged to fund its extremist campaigns.


...If this party, with no previous share of the vote, did not receive state funding, it would be at even more of a disadvantage than a new party would have been in the past.


...If someone chooses not to vote it is because (i) they are unable to (through ill health, pressure of business or what-have-you), (ii) they don&rsquo;t care, or (iii) they think there is nothing to choose between the candidates. ...  If voters don&rsquo;t care or cannot choose between the candidates, forcing them to vote will force them to vote for someone they don&rsquo;t want to vote for.   It is entirely possible that they will choose someone because, say, he or she is the first name on the list. 

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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>More on the BBC</title><dc:creator>Tiger of the Stripe</dc:creator><category>Broadcasting</category><dc:date>2012-03-25T10:38:39+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/bc8fb5160b9dd475eb56e21c0bc1a37c-92.php#unique-entry-id-92</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.book-madness.com/index_files/bc8fb5160b9dd475eb56e21c0bc1a37c-92.php#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After posting my previous comments on the BBC, I thought I should actually complain to the BBC. 

...My complaint followed the lines of my blog post but I made the following additional point.   Article 3.2 of the BBC&rsquo;s charter specifies that its main object is the promotion of its Public Purposes laid out in article 4. 

...	bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK;

	in promoting its other purposes, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services and, in addition, taking 	a leading role in the switchover to digital television.


I suggested that, since their programming entirely failed to promote these purposes, taking the licence fee under such circumstances was akin to embezzlement.


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