Satch is just cool isn’t he? And why can’t someone just give me his guitar?!! Surely I deserve it for being generally ace?

http://bit.ly/7qFAGn

My mate Rob really wants a cat. Really wants a cat. So I guess he was displacing his need with a super-generous Christmas pressie, the Furminator for my cat, Lady.

Ok it appears as being a little pricey for what is essentially a comb but my god! This is no ordinary comb, this is a “deshedding tool for cats”. Its a tool! Which not only means that its safe for a man to use, but it also works better than ANY other brush/comb I’ve ever tried on Lady.

Seriously, just check out the pics and videos! Awesome!

So I ordered a printer cable from Ebuyer yesterday just before 7pm and it arrived at 8.45am today.

I didn’t even choose the quickest delivery option. I chose the cheapest 5 day delivery slot.

Wow.

But this is obviously only contributing to why so many people now get frustrated when things ordered do not arrive by the time their next breath is drawn.

I can’t complain about the service, quite the opposite, but they’re not doing retailers any favours by being soooo quick!

So following my Xbox’s RROD I’m told that Microsoft offer a 3 year extended warranty for this failure. They will pick up and return for free and you can book a super fast collection with UPS. This is only fair. But I was led to believe that my later model of the Xbox Pro with its later chipset shouldn’t succumb to the RROD? Apparently not.

So I bought an Elite. And I’ll sell the Xbox that Microsoft fixes on EBay.

Am I a mug? Possibly. Probably. Ok, yes. The phrase “What you own, owns you” spring to mind.

So it’s December 23rd, I’m looking forward to seeing my brothers and generally spending Christmas playing games and having fun.

Then I get the red ring of death.

Great. Can’t afford to buy a new console at 200 squid so guess I’m just going to have to take it up the proverbial like a man and play cards instead.

Thanks Microsoft. No really, thanks.

This cat is seriously entertaining. You only have to see his box jumping antics – ok I can hear my mates “You know how I know you’re gay?” but y’know this is quality cat stuff. And then there’s the “trying to fit through hole that’s too big for him” pictures. Even the photos are really good quality! If you like cats, check out Maru’s blog.

There’s quite a bit on Today’s Big Thing too …

For cat-lovers only.

Jeez, how long have I been putting off getting this hooked up. Not that I knew it was difficult – it wasn’t. But it was just another thing in a long list of things to do.

Plus I’m procrastinating sweeping up the cat litter, going to the bank, the charity shop, writing Christmas cards, clearing the drain, changing the light switch and then doing some reading …

So I feel justified in dicking around.

So I like cats?! What I like more than cats is my wife laughing and this does it for her …

This is my first blog post using BlogEngine.NET 1.5. I've looked at several blog applications including Microsoft's forthcoming Oxite, dasBlog and Wordpress and frankly this just seemed a no-brainer:

• Setup was incredibly easy;
• It supports XML and SQL Server 2000/2005 as data stores;
• The code is open source; and
• It's .NET and I love .NET

So I guess I should mention that ... the offical site is www.dotnetblogengine.net but the ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex.