Posts by Richard Johnson

Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online

I'm clearly naive then..

I must be very naive then - as I thought that as it stood at the moment you ought to have a TV license to watch iPlayer.

Does anyone really think it wouldn't be possible for the BBC to ask ISPs to ask which accounts are using iPlayer as part of their bandwirth... that might be even more naive..

ID Cards cost cut to £5.6bn

Or they could be delaying..

Becuase it's stupidly expensive to get a new one!!

Effectively a tax on poor people choosing to travel abroad.

MoD in £270m splurge on extra HQ computer terminals

Presumably at some point to become DII(Present) and then perhaps DII(Past).

I very much doubt the MoD will come even close to renaming it to something as sensible as that..

HP revives iPaq range

For £55..

I was going to buy one just for the hell of it! What a shame Reg got a price wrong (again).

HMRC could seize late taxpayers' cash from bank accounts

PAYE

Ted, I can assure you that PAYE does give you a chance for everything to go all out of kilter - luckily at the moment it's in my favour (I work overseas for 5 months), so they end up owing me money.

Question: If they have the right to take the money without asking, does that mean they will also give rebates without having to be asked?

If only the answer wasn't so predictable...