Kitsimons

So, @media 2008 came and went. My first trip to the a-list web conference was well worth the trip, but was all in all a bit of a mixed bag, I have to say.

There were flashes of brilliance, intertwined with poor speakers, poor presentations and poor preparation. Still, I managed to bag myself a couple of t-shirts (why do they assume all web-geeks need a large?) and some Silverback badges which helped make everything seem worth while.

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I've been remiss of late, as this is something I should have posted long ago. Alfa Romeo's Mi.To, to be launched later this year, is the company's first foray into the supermini category. I haven't decided whether the name is silly or not, Mi.To having been foisted upon Alfa by parent company Fiat, but any grievances are forgotten after looking at the car.

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Unmistakably German. Or so says the advertising tag line for the new Citroën C5.

Unfortunately for Citroën, the advertising campaign currently airing on UK television gets it wrong on so many levels.

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So, I signed in to my Gmail account this evening and something didn't feel right. Something almost imperceptible had changed.

After squinting at my inbox for a spell, I realised that Gmail's status message block had moved to a new spot and was sporting a new pastel shade.

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Being a fan of the Terminator series I thought I'd give the Sarah Connor Chronicles a go. The Fox television series set after the events of the second Terminator movie has been airing here on the UK on Virgin 1, an insipid channel with American-style ad breaks every 9 minutes.

I didn't hold out much hope for the series. I was skeptical as to how the Terminator story would translate to the small screen, and even more skeptical as to the odds of the screenwriters being able to string together a story a) worth watching and b) that didn't butcher the Terminator universe (Terminator 3, I'm looking at you).

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For Christmas my brother picked me up a copy of Hugleikur Dagsson's Should You be Laughing at This? and Is this Supposed to be Funny? cartoons.

Although I had flicked through them, it wasn't until earlier this week that I took time to go through them properly. My God, they're funny. Dark, politically incorrect, laugh out loud humour.

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Server problems, a best man's speech to prepare, stag party to organise, a car with expensive things going wrong and up to my eyeballs at the office.

What do you do when everything seems to be getting on top of you? Why, vent off steam on your blog, of course.

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Good grief. I'd expect this kind of idiotic error message from Windoze, but from Time Machine? For shame.

Feel free to post jokes along the lines of Macs dedicating too many resources to looking good and being unable to perform simple arithmetic.

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I've always loved the Caterham Seven. Stunning looks, fantastic to drive, yet completely and utterly insane. A brilliantly mad, and uniquely British sportscar.

Now imagine a Caterham Seven that sports more than double the power-to-weight ratio of the Bugatti Veyron. Enter the suicidal Caterham RST-V8. And stop drooling.

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I was checking the statistics for kitsimons.com earlier today and was somewhat perplexed by the dip to almost zero unique visits. I visited the site to check the server hadn't fallen over, but all seemed well.

It wasn't until later that I realised I was viewing the site without the WWW sub-domain, and the site was indeed inaccessible at the address www.kitsimons.com, throwing up an Internal Server Error no less. Wonderful.

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