The young site, Hometalk.com, has created a space on the Internet for people to share problems and solutions to household upkeep with experts and others passionate about the Do-It-Yourself field.
And while the case did not reveal basic problems in how the royal household followed its established recruitment procedures, it showed existing procedures were not sufficient to expose a fraudulent and dishonest job application.
For there are two well known problems with the way that the Census counts household income (and there are many of these sorts of traps in official US statistics: the pit that is the official poverty measure deserves a book all to itself).
Similar problems plague China's 800 breweries, 600 paper mills and the thousands of firms making household appliances, such as refrigerators and rice cookers.