from the Clarkson Dept.

Site News
A big Hi! to some of the new readers I seem to have gained recently. This is despite the fact that I've not written anything particularly funny lately, and I went off on a bit of a rant the other day. If you're new to this blog, go look through the archives, there's humour (or humor if you like) in there somewhere!

Secondly, I downloaded Mozilla for Mac OS X, and am using it right now! It's a nice solid browser, sans all the wanky Netscape clunkiness of recent years. I'm still using MS's IE 5 for Mac OS X. It's a good browser, but a little slower than others when rendering pages.

The Careers Section
I was at the radio station again today. They were still suggesting that I apply for the job they have going there. I'm just not sure about this. I'm getting no responses about software development jobs, and a number of friends have suggested I go for this job, as a stop-gap measure.

If my fairy-godmother is reading this, could she please come tell me what to do? Stay in Denver? Try for jobs in Canada? Try for jobs in Ireland/Britain? Run away and join the circus?

The Motoring Section
Following the success of their New Beetle (SWMBO has one), It appears that Volkswagon are going to start making a New Microbus.

Now, that picture is only a concept drawing, so I just hope they get the New Beetle design team on board before they finalise it. I say that, because frankly (Mr Shankly), the New Microbus shown, is a tad dull. Where are a the beautiful curves as seen on the New Beetle and the old Microbus? Come on guys, Sort yourselves out!

The same website has an even more exciting picture. It's of a new Bently Coupé. Veeeerrrry nice! I can see that appearing in a forthcoming Bond film.

Talking of which, the cinemas here are starting to show the 'teaser' trailer for a new Bond film, Die Another Day. It'll be out in November of this year. Bond is back to driving an Aston Martin. It struck me that if he'd waited, he could have had the Bently.