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Former Alabama state employee Vernon Blake has 207 pages that he says document his Department of Transportation boss's habit of playing solitaire on state time. The documentation led to a letter of reprimand for Blake's former boss, while the "spyware" Blake secretly put on his boss's state computer got the engineer fired. The state Department of Transportation dismissed Blake in November after 21 years of employment. The Alabama Personnel Department heard Blake's appeal on Monday. In late October 2002, Blake says, he put a free software program called WinSpy on the computer of George Dobbs. The software recorded what was on Dobbs' computer at random intervals for about seven months. More than 70 percent of WinSpy's 414 images show games of solitaire, he said, a fact he brought to the attention of the agency's senior management. The department only reprimanded Dobbs.