wqoohoo – 8 days off work (it feels like it should be longer than that). But if you are a burglar then i’ll still be at home some of the time and the evil cats will still be there….they have claws too – four sets each!

Blogchalking seems to be down at the moment, so the link is removed for the time being.

14 months after finishing my Java course and handing in the course work, I’ve still no results from Stoke On Trent College! Anyone who is thinking about studying with them – I would strongly advise you to not bother – especially if you have to rely on the qualifications to get a job. I logged a formal complaint back in March – and am still waiting for results. A snotty email was sent to them tonight asking what the latest excuse is. If anyone else knows where to complain to now then let me know!

An interesting new bot appeared in my web logs overnight called Slysearch.. From the sounds of it, this will enable teachers to compare submitted work to pieces on the internet to see if someone has done some plagiarising (sp??)

After looking at the Blogtree site, i’ve found several other website that look neat and worth further investigagtion. Some of them i’ve already heard of….DayPop – index of most frequently linked blogs, and blogroots which seems to talk about publicity of blogs…need to keep an eye on both of these.

Thanks to Mike, I’ve found the . This is an interesting site where you can see what blogs inspired a particular person and which blogs they in turn inspired. At the moment I am the only one inspired by Chris @ Lockergnome but I bet that will soon change! I think that his was the site that inspired me to start a blog off myself..I know since then that I’ve been influenced by several other blogs, and I know for a fact i’ve inspired at least three others – will have to get them to sign their websites up!

If you’ve already looked at the wrestling photo’s then you may want to look at them again as I’ve added another ten or so photo’s. Most of these are of Basil asleep as that is all he seems to have done today.

Nice Sunday morning wake up call when Kristen brought me breakfast in bed which was a great way to wake up!! About two minutes later all three cats scrambled into the bedroom and it took about a minute before Winston discovered he could jump up behind the curtains into the window. He was soon joined by the other two and we then had fun watching the cats watching the numerous birds in the garden. I don’t think I’ve seen as many birds in the garden before. Four greenfinch, 3 or 4 GreatTits, magpie, couple of blackbirds, starlings (who seemed to have a great joy in flying straight towards the window to wind Frankie up, then veering away at the last minute). Frankie would then see if he could get into the house next door where the birds had flown too! We also had a nature show when a fly flew into a spiders web and was duly covered up and dragged off – very entertaining! And all this before 9am 🙁

Librarians in Queens are protesting about the fact they are not allowed to wear nose piercings, shorts or t-shirts whilst at work. More details at their local website.

Phew – that was a bit of a relief! I came to upload some more pictures of the cats and discovered I had no power to the usb hub. Checked the mains cable and that seemed to be ok. Then reaslised that the usb cable to the computer wasn’t plugged into the hub – oops! I guess thats what happens when you have so many cables in the computer!
Update Wrestling album now online