Philip Nicosia

Last night I thought that Glyn may have been thrown out of the Big Brother House as his punishment for climbing onto the roof the other day.

Luckily for him Big Brother chose to disallow him from the housemates choosing who from next door they wanted to come back. I doubt it would have made any difference to their decision and last night Nikki returned and was reunited with Pete.

I’m glad Glyn wasn’t thrown out but I don’t think he will win. My guess is that it will be between Nikki and Pete.

After Glyn’s moment of madness climbing on the roof of the Big Brother house in an attempt to get to see the house mates next door Big Brother told him that he would learn what his punishment would be on Friday. Coincidently that is eviction day and I hope they don’t throw out. 

I like Glyn in the house. Although he is the most intelligent person there he often comes across as the dumbest with his child like naivety. I hope he makes it to the end.

Not so much a gadget but more a work of art and a great piece of engineering.

The Geochron Kilburg clock allows you to see what time it is anywhere in the world at a glance.

The clock features a moving map which shows areas of day and night making a complete cycle every 24 hours and gradually changes shape with the seasons.

I managed to pick this one up on Ebay at a considerable saving on the retail price (for a clock they are expensive) and it has been worth every penny. It now hangs on the wall above my desk so if ever I need to know if someone is likely to be awake across the world I can just glance up and see instantly what time it is.

It’s great for planning holidays as well locating where a country is without having to get the atlas out.

Maybe just a glitch or possibly intentional due to demand they can’t cope with but today I noticed you can’t file a reinclusion request to Google. If you look at Google’s webmaster support page it says”

If your site has violated our webmaster guidelines, and you’ve made changes to it so that it meets our guidelines, you can request reinclusion and we’ll evaluate your site.To request reinclusion, log in to Google Sitemaps, choose the “Request reinclusion” link, and follow the steps outlined there.”

Now here is where the problem is. I can’t find a “request reinclusion” link. Does that mean that I don’t need to or is it something that has been missed. It used to be there as I have seen it in the past but this morning when I looked it’s gone.

It’s also interesting to see that you now need to have a Google webmasters account in order to submit a reinclusion request. Is this another way of pushing webmasters to use sitemaps?

Of course you don’t need to submit sitemaps when you do have a Google Sitemaps account and there are other benefits too like their robots.txt checker, reporting of errors on your site, choosing your preferred domain with or without www, etc so it is still worthwhile.

Its just a shame you can’t submit a reinclusion request to Google at the moment.

Earlier Nikki together with Grace, Lea and Mikey entered the house next door watched by the confused house mates live on the screen in the living room.

No mention was made to the housemates that they would have to choose one of the next door neighbours to join them and that one of them could ultimately win the £100,000 prize.

There has been widespread complaints from the audience over the fact that one of the housemates next door could win the prize and Ofcom have received over 1000 complaints from unhappy people who feel cheated to have paid to have someone evicted only for them to return.

It will be interesting to see how all this pans out and who gets chosen to go back into the Big Brother house later during the week.