Put those champagne wishes and caviar dreams on hold. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have cancelled a contract with aviation designer Leslie Jennings. Miffed, Jennings has blabbed details of 'some strange requests' from his former clients.

The affair began when Sergey & Larry bought a Boeing 767-200 widebody, formerly owned by Qantas, planning to use it as an oversize private jet. The pair acquired the 180-seater through a holding company called Blue City Holdings LLC, with Brin saying he would use it for personal travel, including 'taking large numbers of people to places such as Africa'.

The Wall Street Journal reports trouble began when our heroes brought in Jennings early 2005, whose mission was to pimp the plane, repurposing it as a luxurious 50-person ride.

All details were to remain 'ultra secret', but now Jennings has been fired for allegedly not doing his job properly, the designer has started to spill.

The 767's commercial layout was to be modified to include a lounge near the front for Google CEO Eric Schmidt (often seen as the company's designated adult), while boyish Brin & Page would have adjoining state rooms further down the aircraft - described by Schmidt at one point as a 'party plane'.

Jennings says Larry and Sergey's 'strange requests'; included hammocks hung from the ceilings of the plane. And, reports the Journal, 'At one point he witnessed a dispute between them over whether Mr Brin should have a 'California king size bed. Mr Jennings says Schmidt stepped in to resolve that by saying, "Sergey, you can have whatever bed you want in your room; Larry, you can have whatever kind of bed you want in your bedroom".

The Googlistas are continuing a California Superior Court battle with Jennings.

Meanwhile, in more down-to-earth news, Google has appointed its first New Zealand country manager - 32-year-old Forsyth Thompson, who will train in the US, Australia and elsewhere around the Google empire before opening an Auckland office around September. Thompson was formerly the publisher of the New Zealand edition of MIS magazine.