Dave Thorp's Blog

Aims Time!

Aim One

Aim one is to use the miracles of modern genetic engineering to cross a 3 humped camel with a pink female orientated car insurance firm…. just to see what happens!

Aim Two

Aim two is to celebrate the axing of the Jeremy Kyle show by telling him to get off his arse and get a job!

Aim Three

Aim three is to finally find a use for the meerkat from the compare the meerkat adverts by having him highlight to the great british public the very very very very very many differences between Princess Diana and Jade Goody with the only similarity being they are both dead

Aim Four

Aim four is to be very very afraid at the amount of credit JD Williams have given me now

Aim Five

Aim five is to try and go just one month without having anything break down

Has resident mystic Nostradamus finally won a device that will enable him to undercook a variety of meat products generally known as a barbecue. Only time, and the next section of this post will tell!

Prediction one was Jade Goody will die this month…. and indeed yes she did, and she certainly made sure we all knew about it!

Prediction two was The daily mail will be offended by a one legged, two headed, five breasted childrens TV presenter. No one else will be though…. amazingly no the daily mail hasn’t been offended by much this month. And if anyone actually finds a creature like in Nosty’s prediction, send them this way!

The city of Cardiff will sink into the sea….. nope the people of Cardiff have not taken up swimming!

Here are next months predictions

Prediction One

Joining the rest of the nation in confusing Jade Goody with their mother, Princes William and Harry will be seen crying at Jade Goody’s funeral

Prediction Two

Stuart and Alexander Thorp will receive an invisible Easter Egg off one of their so called relatives this month

Prediction Three

The moon will fall out of orbit and crash into the Earth destroying all except one small ant

I remember having this problem running the beta versions of firefox 3 and now the same issue is happening with firefox 3.1 (soon to be firefox 3.5).

Basically Natwest (and presumably RBS) online banking has the most atrocious browser detection routine which essentially looks at your browser user agent string and if it doesn’t match the strings it’s been told work with the site it refuses to let you in. Now this is stupid because the vast majority of modern browsers work with Natwest no problems however each time a new (or a beta) version comes out Natwest assume that it wont work with online banking.

So once again it’s time for my little trick to make Natwest think it’s working. This involves the following steps

• In the location bar type “about:config” and press enter
• You’ll then get a warning about dragons. As Peter Jones isn’t that scary just ignore it
• Find the preference “general.useragent.extra.firefox” and delete the b3 bit so it reads “Firefox/3.1″
• Laugh in the face of Natwest’s stupid browser detection system
• Log into internet banking
• Send me all your money (just kidding)

And so ends one of the most publicised deaths since Jesus Christ. What I however find really funny is that despite every aspect of her life for the last month or two has been on the TV, the newspapers and mailed out to every UK home, her family and friends are now calling for privacy.

Couldn’t they have done that two months ago and spared us every detail of her death?

Coming soon on TV, a big brother style show with cameras all around her home showing full coverage of her final few days including that moment when life finally slipped away from her. Oh and her funeral is likely to be the biggest thing since Diana’s and televised on every single TV channel. Of course Diana was a much loved member of the royal family who did a lot of good things. And Jade… was on big brother!

And in one final irony, Jade Goody was of course a mother…. and she died on mother’s day… there’s irony for you!