The Personal Blog for Clarke Duncan (aka Supercod).

Teaching the Teachers

It’s not often you can teach a teacher a new trick or two but that’s what happened his week. Managed to get myself roped in to helping my son’s primary school get its website live. They us a council funded content managment system to manage the site, all the local schools use it from what I can work out and while it’s better than many I have seen. It is a bit over complex for what should be a pretty straight forward system. Nothing I couldn’t work out, in fact I never even bothered looking at the manual.

Anyway I am pleased to say that the Hillington Primary School website is now live. I didn’t do all the pages just a few and got the images uploaded. Also took the photograph of the school but I need to go back and do again as it was 6pm when I took that shot so the shutter is down and I faked the sky, it’s actually from one of my Portugal photographs ;-)

Late Payment of Commercial Debts

With so many business going under you can’t beat about the bush when getting paid invoices. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 allows you to act the very day after an invoice has been paid late, you can claim a recovery free along with interest for each day the payment is late. I have wrote a huge big article on what Scottish Companies can do to recover money but the legislation is the same in England and Wales so it’s well worth a read.

Some companies act like it’s a privilege for them to pay an invoice on time, while mistakes can happen, being a constant offender of not paying invoice on time should not be tolerated and you have to use the law to send the message home to these dodgers of payments that your not going to be walked over, they will soon listen up and start paying on time.