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Rarely using Brightkite from the web in favor of myKite on my BlackBerry Storm, I thought that the recent problems connecting and locating myself were on my end. Today, though, after extended periods of denied access and even a fresh install of myKite, I decided to go to Brightkite’s site and was greeted with this:

Included on the page is a link to the Brightkite blog, which states that the outage is part of the preparations for the upcoming Brightkite 2.0 update. Also found on the blog are some vague details about improvements to Placesnapping and helping Brightkite find you faster and more accurately.

So, what says the blogosphere? Anyone else missing their Brightkite? Is anticipation for version 2.0 building up to a fever pitch?

I love my new place. I really do. I live three miles from where I work (go ahead, mutter curses under your breath as you stare at your most recent gas receipt), I have friends who live merely steps away, and there’s a handful of restaurants and shopping nearby. It’s a real peach of a place to live.

However, there are a few very small negatives. One of these is that a three-mile, straight-shot commute to work can make for some redundant scenery. Case in point: a certain buffet-style restaurant with a name that invokes images of a precious metal and the scene of a gunfight in a famous western movie. If you’re not sure of the name, maybe this picture will “ring a bell”…

Ok, probably not unless you’re a movie nerd like me. Anyway, on the sign in front of this restaurant, there is currently an ad for the all new “Captian’s Table” seafood buffet. Yes, that’s what it says – Captian. Not Captain, as in the commander of a ship. Or Caption, like the oft-hilarious broken English found adorning cat photos at ICanHasCheezburger.com. Not even Caspian, the mythical Prince of Narnia. You, my friends, have the privilege of sharing a table with Captian, benevolent patron saint of the all new seafood buffet.

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