Tag: laws
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Buying a House, Part 3
In the third blog post in this series, Dan, Ruth and JTA acquire some lawyers, fill out a mortgage application, and discover that the house that they've been looking at is built on an Indian Burial Ground! No, wait, scratch that last thing.
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Jury Duty, Part 4
Dan's jury service comes to an end, and he looks back on it as he fills in his expenses claim form and contemplates tandems.
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Jury Duty, Part 3
As part of his ongoing jury duty, Dan serves on a trial. And while he can't write about the trial itself, he can tell you all kinds of other things...
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Jury Duty, Part 2
Dan's done his first day of jury service, in which he mostly sat around in a waiting room and watched a patronising DVD.
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Jury Duty, Part 1
Dan's been called for jury service. Naturally, he's going to be blogging about it (except for the bits that he legally can't, of course).
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A Broken Oath
You wouldn't have thought it possible to incorrectly witness an oath or affirmation, would you? But somehow, a solicitor that Dan paid did exactly that.
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4 Things You Should Do When Writing A Will (Which My Dad Didn't)
While acting as executor for his father's estate, there have been four particular problems with Dan's dad's Will that have made the task monumentally more-challenging than it might have been. Here are four things that Dan's dad should have done to make Dan's job easier.
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The Coroner's Inquest
Dan provides reflections on his trip to Kendal for the coroner's inquest on his father's death, five months after he fell from a cliff in the Lake District.
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.
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Poly and the Census - Success! (almost)
After much to-ing and fro-ing, the Freedom of Information Act request that a fellow blogger made to the Office of National Statistics, on the subject of households with individuals in non-monogamous relationships or with non-binary genders, has begun to yield results. Dan comments on the findings.
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Poly and the Census – Part Four
More fun and games in Zoe's quest to get meaningful information out of the Office of National Statistics, about how census data reflects non-monogamous and non-heteronormative relationships.
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Leading By Example
After getting thoroughly confused by the new European Union directives on the use of cookies, which come into force later this month, Dan goes to the Information Commissioner's website to look for some guidance... only to discover that they don't meet the new requirements, either.
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Poly and the Census - Part Three
Dan hears back - albeit only via somebody else's Freedom of Information Act request - to his concerns about the possible treatment of polyamorous households by the Office of National Statistics during this year's census. And he's not happy.
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Poly and the Census - Part Two
Still no reply from the Office of National Statistics... but somebody's put in a Freedom of Information request now asking a very similar question.
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Please Drink This Alcohol-Free Beer Responsibly
Huh? *
How am I expected to irresponsibly enjoy an alcohol-free beer? By selling it to people as "the real stuff"? It's certainly not by drinking it - you'd have to drink somewhere in excess of one-hundred and sixty-seven bottles of Beck's Blue, for example, to get the same amount of alcohol as you'd get in …