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Life on the right side…
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It was an age calculator, a simple one-page site that allows you to work out someone’s age from their date of birth (which is often all you are given on a defendant’s charge sheet).
The importance of accuracy in this area should not be underestimated.
Newspapers are not allowed to name criminals who are under the age of 18 and the likely fines and rollicking from the bosses should we accidentally flout such a ruling is the stuff of journalists’ nightmares.
Now, I imagine that half of the people reading this would be thinking, why on earth would you need a computer to work out such a simple thing? However, there will also be a large group of people who are nodding their heads in empathy.
We are the right-side-of-the-brainers, the creative types who can describe a beautiful sunset in great detail or explain why one poem is better than another but struggle to remember what a prime number is or how to work out ten per cent of a restaurant bill.
Read the rest of Ramsay’s column in Saturday’s JEP.
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