Wishing all our readers the best over the holidays. Our posts are currently on hold as its nearly impossible to conenct to our server to post, a little update: Repairs start on Mediterranean telecoms cables Work began yesterday to repair the cables torn by a ship's anchor in the Mediterranean, disrupting internet and international telephone service as far as the Middle East and South Asia.

As the year draws to an end we will be updating our links page at Juicestorm. If you have a blog or website you would like us to add drop us a line, or if there is a blog/website you visit that you think would make a good addition please let us know. The first two that are being added are:

Mark Baker of Betbot Pro has kindly give us a full copy of BetBotpro (Complete with 6 months of updates). Worth £97 Adam Todd from Racing Traders has kindly given us 2 prizes. 6 months of full access to the ladder interface and 2000 minutes of access to the ladder interface.

At 11.00am UK time on Wednesday 17th December 2008 we have Michael Baker live as my guest on WUBT Betting Exchange Radio. He has been a trader on betting exchanges for nearly 5 years, two of those being full time. He is only 24 years old and trades on all...

Someone asked via emil about these gravatar things we have enabled in our blog, so I though I would post the answer here. A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs?

For any regular Betfair forumites from the old days you might remember Gerryatric. Well, he just contacted me after a couple of years by email and I reproduce it below. (If you don’t want it published here Gerry let me know and I’ll delete it.) Gerry, BTW, click the headline above to see the full post! LOL. It seems he now has a life ban at the Betfair forum and a possible blog ban. Gerry, come over to the land of the free. You can either have your own blog hosted here free - and so can anyone else for that matter - or why don’t you become a guest author at Juicestorm.com? My home here.