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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. Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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). Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading







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