I see the BBC has finally found about Google's "Florida" update: BBC NEWS | Programmes | Working Lunch | Google changes anger web businesses

On Friday the 12th December I'll be in the Lansdowne Inn, Torquay meeting clients and having a few drinks. If anyone who visits this site wants to come along and say hello or pick my brain that is the day to do it.

http://www.clearbluemedia.net/xmas.htm has all the details.

As per usual I received an AOL CD. I've only ever installed in once and that was because a customer wanted to use AOL in the cyber cafe. Well I sat here today and wondered what to do with it as I already have a nice collection of them for coffee mats. A quick search on the net and I discovered a No More AOL cds web page. So far they have had 253,135 cd's sent to them. Check out the photo section, it's pretty funny.

I've had the flu for a few weeks now and after the initial 4 days of hell I thought I'd got over the worst. During these last few weeks I've still had a cough but that was it. Well yesterday and today it's come back with a vengence. I feel completly exhausted and I've spent most of today in bed and once I've written this that is exactly where I'm going back to.

It's my Sisters wedding tomorrow and I'm praying I'll be a bit better. At the moment it takes all my energy to visit the loo let alone the thought of a full day driving etc tomorrow.

Fingers crossed.

While I'm at it Google has introduced a new Google Deskbar. It is a nice touch and I make good use of it.

I see that the media has finally found out about the Google changes that have angered web businesses.

Wow, I just noticed my post Saturday was at 3.11am. I thought it was 1am when I went to bed :)

I had a email just now from Google and they have reactivated my adwords account thankfully. The banner is still blank though so I'm hoping it's all working when I wake up in the morning.

I've set my dad up with a computer at home now so he's happy finally :) It's always the way isn't it. You do your job but when it comes to family you just can never find the time hehe

Suncoast Properties has really started to take off now. That revamp really helped a lot. I've learnt so much over the summer but these last 4 weeks have seen some radical alterations in my approach to designing a site and the search engine promotions. I'm hoping that Buy-Spanish-Property will follow suit once it starts getting established.

I've warned one of my link exchange clients repeatedly not to alter the main page because the SE's need the text on the page to gain higer rankings. I check the google cache today and he's only put a flash intro banner on the main page and no text. I'm giving up on that one for now and at least he can't bitch when it drops completely off the engines. Maybe then he'll listen to me.

I normally hate the TV programme "Changing Rooms" but as I was about to turn over I saw it was filmed in Torquay. I just had to watch it :) They took some really nice takes of Torquay Marina and if you saw it tonight you'll notice the presenter was standing exactly where I took

this photo of Torquay Harbour.

I read on Eonline that

Johnathan Brandis has commited suicide. It got me thinking about people who were young actors/actresses. Have you noticed that a high portion of them either disappear, die from drink/drugs or end up in the gutter or dead some other way. Those still alive are always regretful that they started acting so young. Makes you wonder that if such a high portion of them have really bad lives a decade later why do so many still try to make it as a young star actor?

Sorry I didn't take any photos of Torquay Carnival yesterday, I was in such a hurry that me and my Newphew Tom didn't miss it I clean forgot to take it until it was too late. Think I should leave it in my coat pocket from now on ;)

What a nice day I've had today.

I was all set for a days work when my Newphew Tom MSN'd a hello to me. We got talking and I said I was going to pick up my christmas tree from Paignton. He asked if he could come along so I said sure.

We spent the afternoon putting up the tree and decorating it. Then as we took the dog out we noticed the Torbay carnival had just started so we raced back, put my dog inside and shot down to castle circus to get a birds eye view. Because of my work in the Police I had never properly seen the carnival. I thought it was great and so did Tom.

We came back home, hired a video and went straight to a fish and chip shop in Paignton. we both sat by my open fire with my christmas tree all lit up and watched the video. I love days like this :)

I'm going to be mentioning Christmas a lot over the next few weeks so get used to it... I Looooove Christmas :)