the other day i finally got round to submitting my tax return using the government’s online facility. much to my surprise [and that of the church mice who have been shouting "pauper!" at me recently as i pass], it turns out madra.net actually made a profit of just over £1300 this year. [...]

the first installment in an ongoing saga whereby yours truly boldly attempts that ‘trial by bureaucracy’ known as ‘renewing his irish passport’…
as mentioned before, with my current irish passport being out of date, i’m unable to avail of the ‘instant issue’ scheme whereby you travel to baghdad, get kidnapped and are then instantly issued with [...]

well, while perusing my dismal visitor figures in the madra.net stats the other day, i noticed that there were a fair few 404 errors being generated - presumably people using old links to pages which dinnae exist anymore, following the redesign. so i scrawled a quick cartoon and threw together a quick ‘ [...]