December 2004
28 posts
many happy [tax] returns
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. pretty shoddy on the great global scale of things but, considering this was my first year...
Dec 23rd
many happy [tax] returns
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. pretty shoddy on the great global scale of things but, considering this was my first year...
Dec 23rd
many happy [tax] returns
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. pretty shoddy on the great global scale of things but, considering this was my first year...
Dec 23rd
2 tags
many happy [tax] returns
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. pretty shoddy on the great global scale of things but, considering this was my first year...
Dec 23rd
passport shenanigans [part01]
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by bureaucracy’ known as ‘renewing his irish passport’… as mentioned before, with my current irish passport being out of date, i’m unable to avail of the ‘instant issue’ scheme whereby you travel to baghdad, get kidnapped and are then instantly issued with a...
Dec 16th
passport shenanigans [part01]
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by bureaucracy’ known as ‘renewing his irish passport’… as mentioned before, with my current irish passport being out of date, i’m unable to avail of the ‘instant issue’ scheme whereby you travel to baghdad, get kidnapped and are then instantly issued with a...
Dec 16th
passport shenanigans [part01]
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 a...
Dec 16th
2 tags
passport shenanigans [part01]
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 a...
Dec 16th
crossing the 'i's and dotting the 't's
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 ’ custom 404 page’ so now the lost and lonely are confronted wi sommit a bit more...
Dec 15th
crossing the 'i's and dotting the 't's
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 ’ custom 404 page’ so now the lost and lonely are confronted wi sommit a bit more...
Dec 15th
crossing the 'i's and dotting the 't's
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 ’ custom 404 page’ so now the lost and lonely are confronted wi sommit a bit more...
Dec 15th
2 tags
crossing the 'i's and dotting the 't's
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 ’ custom 404 page’ so now the lost and lonely are confronted wi sommit a bit more...
Dec 15th
uno, dos, tres... catorce ???!!!
someone should tell U2 that in whatever that feckin song is they’re using to sell ipods at the minute, bonio is screeching “one, two, three, fourteen” in spanish. is that a fuck-up, or am i missing something incredibly witty and deliberate here?
Dec 12th
uno, dos, tres... catorce ???!!!
someone should tell U2 that in whatever that feckin song is they’re using to sell ipods at the minute, bonio is screeching “one, two, three, fourteen” in spanish. is that a fuck-up, or am i missing something incredibly witty and deliberate here?
Dec 12th
uno, dos, tres... catorce ???!!!
someone should tell U2 that in whatever that feckin song is they’re using to sell ipods at the minute, bonio is screeching “one, two, three, fourteen” in spanish. is that a fuck-up, or am i missing something incredibly witty and deliberate here?
Dec 12th
2 tags
uno, dos, tres... catorce ???!!!
someone should tell U2 that in whatever that feckin song is they’re using to sell ipods at the minute, bonio is screeching “one, two, three, fourteen” in spanish. is that a fuck-up, or am i missing something incredibly witty and deliberate here?
Dec 12th
under wordpress-ure
while i like wordpress’s interface several zillion times more than i did that of movable type, find, i just cannae seem to write freely in a browser form window. i dunno what it is; the thought that if the browser crashes i’ll loose everything…?, working in that cramped wee box [even allowing for omniweb’s almost great ‘form edit window’]…? or...
Dec 12th
under wordpress-ure
while i like wordpress’s interface several zillion times more than i did that of movable type, find, i just cannae seem to write freely in a browser form window. i dunno what it is; the thought that if the browser crashes i’ll loose everything…?, working in that cramped wee box [even allowing for omniweb’s almost great ‘form edit window’]…? or...
Dec 12th
under wordpress-ure
while i like wordpress’s interface several zillion times more than i did that of movable type, find, i just cannae seem to write freely in a browser form window. i dunno what it is; the thought that if the browser crashes i’ll loose everything…?, working in that cramped wee box [even allowing for omniweb’s almost great ‘form edit window’]…? or...
Dec 12th
2 tags
under wordpress-ure
while i like wordpress’s interface several zillion times more than i did that of movable type, find, i just cannae seem to write freely in a browser form window. i dunno what it is; the thought that if the browser crashes i’ll loose everything…?, working in that cramped wee box [even allowing for omniweb’s almost great ‘form edit window’]…? or...
Dec 12th
random irritations no. 634
downloads from the net, where not only does the name of the archived file you download bear no relation at all to the name on the download link but uncompressing the archive file produces something with yet another completely different name. i find this is a great way to fill my downloads folder up with either multiple downloads of the same archive file as i hit ‘download’ again...
Dec 9th
random irritations no. 634
downloads from the net, where not only does the name of the archived file you download bear no relation at all to the name on the download link but uncompressing the archive file produces something with yet another completely different name. i find this is a great way to fill my downloads folder up with either multiple downloads of the same archive file as i hit ‘download’ again...
Dec 9th
random irritations no. 634
downloads from the net, where not only does the name of the archived file you download bear no relation at all to the name on the download link but uncompressing the archive file produces something with yet another completely different name. i find this is a great way to fill my downloads folder up with either multiple downloads of the same archive file as i hit ‘download’ again...
Dec 9th
2 tags
random irritations no. 634
downloads from the net, where not only does the name of the archived file you download bear no relation at all to the name on the download link but uncompressing the archive file produces something with yet another completely different name. i find this is a great way to fill my downloads folder up with either multiple downloads of the same archive file as i hit ‘download’ again after...
Dec 9th
slaving over a hot keyboard
well, there’s nothing like a bout of enforced poverty to get the creative juices flowing! work has been a bit thin on the ground over the past few weeks. what with christmas being round the corner [i think it started in early november this year!] people are obviously saving the money they’d usually spend on vital necessities like websites and programming on idle frippery like...
Dec 3rd
slaving over a hot keyboard
well, there’s nothing like a bout of enforced poverty to get the creative juices flowing! work has been a bit thin on the ground over the past few weeks. what with christmas being round the corner [i think it started in early november this year!] people are obviously saving the money they’d usually spend on vital necessities like websites and programming on idle frippery like...
Dec 3rd
slaving over a hot keyboard
well, there’s nothing like a bout of enforced poverty to get the creative juices flowing! work has been a bit thin on the ground over the past few weeks. what with christmas being round the corner [i think it started in early november this year!] people are obviously saving the money they’d usually spend on vital necessities like websites and programming on idle frippery like...
Dec 3rd
2 tags
slaving over a hot keyboard
well, there’s nothing like a bout of enforced poverty to get the creative juices flowing! work has been a bit thin on the ground over the past few weeks. what with christmas being round the corner [i think it started in early november this year!] people are obviously saving the money they’d usually spend on vital necessities like websites and programming on idle frippery like...
Dec 3rd