Dave Thorp's Blog

Been using firefox 3 for a bit now and only problem I’ve had with the beta versions is that Natwest Internet Banking wont work.

Until today I’ve been using the IE Tab extension to make natwest open in an Internet Explorer tab within firefox however that isn’t ideal as it means having to use internet explorer which is never a good idea.

Fortunately, I’ve now solved the problem and internet banking works fine in firefox 3 beta 5. To solve simply crack open about:config in firefox. Ignore the nice warning about dragons and then find the string general.useragent.extra.firefox. Right click on that string and select modify. Then simply remove the b5 so it reads as Firefox/3.0

Firefox will now identify itself as firefox 3 and not as firefox 3b5 and internet banking will no longer complain!

Stuart has now taken it upon himself to be waking up at about 6am every morning regardless of whatever time we put him to bed.

Which is nice…. NOT!

Time again to check on our aims

Aim One

Aim one is to hack off one of my legs, marry Sir Paul McCartney, divorce him and then pocket £23 million as well as entitling me to disability living allowance for life

Aim Two

Aim two is to provide pubs with a calculator so they can work out exactly how much their prices should have increased by because of the budget rather than simply adding 10p to the cost of every drink whether the budget increased it or not

Aim Three

Aim three is to transfer the BBC show Dragons Den over to Channel 5 by replacing all the dragons with real dragons and then seeing how many entrepreneurs can survive with their inventions intact

Aim Four

Aim four is to hack off one of my legs and then beat Heather Mills McCartney to death with it for being so greedy and money grabbing

Aim Five

Aim five is to finally upload pictures of Alex onto this blog so Yvonne will stop nagging me!

And now lets see how Nostradamus has done this month

Prediction one was "There will be a holiday designed merely to enrich the greeting card industry some time this month"..... not one but two with Mothers day and Easter gets Nosty off to a flying start

Prediction two was "The bloke living above us will have a 7th stereo seized by environmental health this month and in a shocking twist, will actually learn from his mistakes and not bother replacing it within a matter of hours"...... amazingly he didn't though he's probably too busy packing to play his stereo loud every day (though he did some days still)

Prediction three was "Locusts will descend upon Leicester and consume the entire population"...... The people of Leicester still live

So no Barbecue again with just 1 right. However 2 out of 3 of this months predictions will win the Barbecue next month

Prediction One

A major Government department will lose people’s personal data

Prediction Two

The job centre will mess up at least one of our benefit payments this month

Prediction Three

Blood will pour from the sky and a cat will give birth to a snake