Oh dear me, what a 24 hours or so. My body is a quivering wreck, battered simultaneously by alcohol, sleep deprivation and sheer weight of laughter. I don't think I've stopped laughing since this time last night, much of it Hitler-cat related.

Not all of it, mind. Some of it was definitely Singstar-related. Singstar is the PlayStation karaoke phenomenon which allows friends to compete against each other singing various eighties anthems (or other tracks depending on the version(s) you purchase). You can see on-screen how close you are to being in tune, how many points you and your opponent have scored, and watch the video for the song with the lyrics at the same time. I can't entirely remember all the songs I did but Kate Bush, 'Running Up That Hill', was definitely involved.

Singstar is great for plain old karaoke but it comes into its own with its unique, hilarious game of 'karaoke pong'. Pong was the seminal early arcade game which took the form of extremely rudimentary computer tennis, using big white blocks to smack a smaller white block from one side of the screen to another and back again. In the Singstar version you use your voice to direct your big white block - 'paddle' - up and down your side of the screen depending on where the ball is travelling (miss the ball and you lose). Emit a high note and your paddle soars upwards; unleash your booming baritone and the paddle plunges lower. It is harder than you think, not least because you end up laughing and the sound of laughter sends your paddle all over the place.

I do have a wonderful sound recording of people playing Singstar pong last night and producing a series of squeaks and growls - I'll try to rescue the audio off my phone at some point.

In other news I can tell you our Ascot Ladies' Day photo gallery received over 100,000 page impressions yesterday, a huge figure, so we're very happy indeed about that. I'll confess, I had my doubts that sixty-plus pictures of hats could hold public attention, but my god have I been proved wrong. If you know an event coming up in Berkshire that'd make a good photo gallery then definitely let me know, they're always immensely popular.