Archive for October, 2002
The mind boggles
I get some odd email, but tonight’s really takes the biscuit … sent to my business email address.
Dear Rachel. I locate the market for a new fiancče. You are interested? I too have all my car and to inhale to more things such as this. If you are sharpened, email less within one week or I could have selected of another way already to a good wife please and you will be able more of length not to have my abundance.
Answer soon.
Why?
The Reg have been running stories on one of my pet hates the last few days – banks and online services that lock out those using alternative (or anything other than Internet Explorer on Windows) browsers and operating systems.
I’m not surprised that Natwest has been named as the most villainous site in this respect. I wrote to Natwest a few weeks ago because if you visit their site in Netscape 7, you get a message saying that they are testing in Netscape 6 (hello..? Wakey wakey web developers…) and if you try to access the online banking service using anything other than Internet Explorer or the five year old Netscape 4.* on Mac or PC you are denied access.
I discovered this page a few weeks ago and have been happily accessing my banking service using Konqueror on Linux while pretending to be a Mac running Netscape 4.7, and it works fine – the proof. Which begs the question, why? If the service works fine in another browser (the nasty menus don’t work but that is quite a relief really) why are they cutting people off from being able to use the service, and getting a bunch of bad publicity to boot?
Tired
My open university exam is on Tuesday, I feel as if I have learned loads on my course but have no idea whether I will manage to scrawl it all onto the exam paper in three hours. One thing is sure, I’ll be relieved once it is over.
I feel so wiped out at the moment, I could do with a week off, a week to watch crap television, read lightweight books, go to the gym and spend time with the small person. I can’t see that happening any time between now and Christmas. One time-consuming project is coming to an end however, and with no open university study until next February things should seem a little easier come the end of this month.
October
I love autumn. I’m not a summer person, even the south of England is too warm for this Northerner, and in the heat of August I long for the leaves to change and the crisp autumn mornings.
I have my open university exam this month, I’ve done well in my essays but I haven’t done an exam since my GCSEs. Hopefully I’ll not get my religions in a muddle and do well enough to come through with reasonable grade. Then I have classical Latin and, ‘Religion Today, tradition modernity and change’ to look forward to next year!
