Gareth Powell
gmmapowell.bsky.social
Gareth Powell
@gmmapowell.bsky.social
One of the few who recognize the total and complete pointlessness of life.
"Hopefully this time it will be different."

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January 30, 2026 at 10:01 PM
If you want to follow the whole plot of how I dug myself out of the hole I was in, you want to read the five posts starting here:

ignorancemaybestrength.blogspot.com/2026/01/excl...
Exclusive vs Inclusive Canonicalization
For once, the SDST at HMRC weren't immediately able to help me. A couple of weeks have gone by, and their only comment was that the second ...
ignorancemaybestrength.blogspot.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Finally, today, I managed to find (and manipulate) a computations iXBRL file that submitted successfully. So I'm now in a position to try and generate everything.

ignorancemaybestrength.blogspot.com/2026/01/now-...
Now Let's Figure out the iXBRL
So now we have two accounts documents: one reliably succeeds; the other reliably fails. So, what (apart from the obvious) is the differenc...
ignorancemaybestrength.blogspot.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:07 AM
A classic pre/trans fallacy.
October 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I would ask David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_In...
Home Information Pack - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Count me in. Still recovering from my interactions with Holacracy 20 years ago...
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm going to say it's the other way around: it is age verification theatre.

It takes a photo of your face (or the nearest adult's if you're a child) and guesses your age.

It then claims to delete the photo.
September 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Email was one of those technologies that made us feel more productive but actually did the opposite,"

So true.

And Slack.

And...
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This time it is different... this time it's the machine itself telling you it's different...
September 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I know you said no questions, but what does it (literally) mean?
September 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM