Well it certainly has been a manic 24 hours here in the Saliba household. I brought the new puppy home yesterday (OK I had it brought to me by my brother, don’t pick hairs with me Rodney!) and boy has she made herself at home!

She has never been away from her mother before (I’m not sure how good it is to give away or sell a puppy that has been cruelly yanked from its mother’s breast) so I am going to have to take it slow, I took her out every couple of hours and the poor thing urinated in fright every time!

She gets the hiccups everytime I bring her back inside because she is so scared.

She is refusing to be walked on the lead outside but she is happy to race with me down the landing and into the lift but then I have to pick her up and take her to the grass. Once she is on the grass though she is walking about and having a good old sniff around.

Inside is a different story she is into everything I do not think there is a part of he flat that she has not investigated yet!

She is also eating and drinking very well which is a good sign, she was a bit reluctant at first as apparently she is used to fighting her siblings to the food bowl, where as here she has her own.

Things have started brightly.

I had a huge reply to my plea to help me come up with a name for her, the breeder had named her Blackie but obviously I can not call her that so I put out a plea and it was answered by about 100 people on my blog,, via email, UKFF and Digital Point!

One of my favourites was from JLM from the UKFF who offered up Genki as a name, but when I initially told people their response was “Junkie? You’re calling you dog Junkie?” So sadly I had to drop that idea and after looking over the huge list I decided to go with one that was suggested via email.

Thank you to Mark Simmonds my new puppy is now called Roxie.

I’d like to thank everyone who took the time and effort to throw a name into the hat. I thought it was a fun thing to do

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I had my dog of 13 years put to sleep about ten months ago after it was discovered, during an examination, that she had a tumour in her stomach that had gone undetected and had burst.

Well in the morning I am going to pick up my new puppy, a seven week old purebred staffordshire bull terrier. She is the only one left in the litter and she ether goes to a good home or to the RSPCA who will probably put her down.

She is black with a white patch on her face. My brother’s friend (the guy who breeds these dogs legally) has called it blackie in a lame attempt at humour, living on an estate with lots of ethnic people I can hardly keep on calling her Blackie.

So I am looking for a name for her.

I have racked my brains but can not come up with anything suitable (the best I could come up with was Scruffy after the dog on New Tricks but that sounds daft for a Staff) so I am opening the floor to people.

That is correct, I want you guys to help come up with a name for my new little friend.

To help you I will tell you that:

• She is very friendly and puts her head into everything (don’t leave you bag around or she’ll be in it!)
• She is rather dopey
• She chews anything and everything in sight.
• She loves her food.

If you can think of a name that will suit her then simply leave a comment to this post and I will paw (pun intended) over the names and announce the result. Your prize shall be that nice warm glow knowing that you helped name my new best friend.

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Yesterday was Monday and that is the day that my dad gets paid, obviously not wanting to leave the house he sends me to the nearest cash machine to get his money out for him.

I did not go yesterday, as I had things to do, and he threw a huge strop about it, despite the fact that he still has about £500+ in cash in an envelope in his bedroom and despite the fact that I could pick it up today if he wanted as I have nothing important planned today.

He asked me about 50 times yesterday why I had not gone to get his money, anyone would think that he needed to get the money out as soon as it goes into his account in case it disappears or something!

Today I asked him for his cash card and said I would go in about 30 minutes, he threw another huge strop because I was not going straight away. In the end I took the card and he started giving me orders (get the money out, go to the supermarket, go into a pound shop and buy some stuff, do this, do that, do the other).

No sooner had I walked in through the front door, after doing all these chores I might add, he started telling me to go to the local shop to get some things he had forgotton to tell me to get. I’m afraid I ended up telling him to fuck off.

And not even a thank you.

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Well again I went nuts and decided to give my three blogs a nice tidy up, well hat is how it started but I actually ended up giving I Need Discipline and Wrestling Gazette complete new designs. I’m quite pleased with the results on the two blogs mentioned.

I also monetized the two blogs, which was something that I had failed to take advantage of in the past and I am actually very pleased with the results. I also gave htis blog a little bi of a clean up, you’ll notice it loads a hell of a lot quicker, I’ve also tightened the monetization of this blog better.

There is currently a special offer going on over at I Need Discipline where I am actually prepared to give away the modified template design, so you can benefit with better monetization of you own blog, in exchange for you joining my mailing list.

Head over and check it out.

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Have you ever heard of corporate performance management?

I’m guessing some of you might not have heard of this. Corporate performance management (or CPM as it is commonly named) is a bunch of software that enables a company to understand its business performance much better.

Last year the company behind the software received the 2007 Innovative Solution Award, this goes some way to showing you just how successful this can be to you business no matter how big or small it is.

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