Itunes 9.0.3

Despite having purchased many songs via Itunes I now have an updated credit card. As such needed to change the number and expiry date. Now Itunes tells me the Itunes store is not available in my country and won't accept the Jersey post code in upper or lower case. Aren't these companies brilliant.

Any ideas?

Do They Hear The Public?

Yet again our government has debated something that should be left to individual choice. Jersey likes to boast its independence and the "Jersey Way" but they slavishly follow whichever UK government is in power and hence here we have the nanny state.

Now parents have a decision forced upon them to make their children wear cycle helmets. Well there's a thing. It's an easy decision. No cycling - can't afford any more extra expense. But thanks Deputy Green (who I did not have the chance to vote for) for following your own particular interest (notwithstanding your well founded motive) and deciding this for all Islanders. Hopefully like so many of our current crop of politicians there will only be one term. Roll on the next election.

States Loan & Housing Qualifications

We hear now that Senator Le Main is considering bringing back the States loan. Details are sketchy as ever but one presumes there is going to be some use of the attempted use of the economic stimulus fund.

This blog wrote about this point here some 14 months ago, mid crisis so to speak. Now things are taking another turn for the worse we get some action.

Equally instead of the knee jerk reaction to the J category being abandoned and all qualified persons being allowed to buy what they wanted what really is needed is the abandoning of Housing qualifications purely because, at some point, sooner rather than later someone will challenge it and they will succeed. Will Jersey be able to afford that?