There’s news that Apple will be releasing a version of iTunes for Windows, which might mean we can postpone a hard drive upgrade for the iMac. I hope the functionality is as robust as the Mac version…if it means we can host the music on the server and stream the library to the Powerbooks, that would be fantastic.

Mash-up. Pitchfork Media did a review of a recompiled track called Sly Beyonce Walks Like A Nerd, which is a remix of a Sly Stone, Beyonce, Bangles and NERD track on top of each other. Todd had turned me on to mash-ups last year when he played an MP3 of an Eminem rap over Zeppelin’s The Wanton Wanted Song. There’s a guy in the UK who works under the name Go Home Productions who has a whole catalog of stuff that I’d love to get my hands on. This stuff is brilliant—there’s Madonna singing Ray Of Light over the Sex Pistols’ Pretty Vacant (it sounds like it wouldn’t work, but it really does), and Morcheeba’s World Looking In over a remixed drum track of Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love. (which goes to prove that you can take any Zeppelin track, mix out the vocals, drop something completely different on top, and have yourself another hit record. Try that, Creed.) I wish there were more MP3’s available but he obviously had to take most of them down for copyright reasons. Right on.

I started looking into some way I can get two separate calendars linked up in one place so that Jen and I can keep our schedules together. I’d love to do it through iCal, as Jen will hopefully have a Mac on her work desk sometime next year. I’ve been trying to figure out how to sync two calendars up without spending $99 on Apple’s .Mac service, especially since I’m running a webserver at home. After looking around at a bunch of dead links, I was able to find a good primer on enabling WebDAV service built in to OSX. Of course, I’m putting the cart in front of the horse because I still haven’t worked out the issues with dyndns and tunneling through my router. Arrggh.

I’m also starting to look at updating the design on my weblog/website; I’d like to move over to a CSS-based layout (at least for the log pages) and modify the other pages, as the design is now about two years old. Some of the things I’d like to keep on the main site are:

• The update and photo on the home page.
• The basic page layout, but move to a stepped-page portfolio listing.
• The white background/gray highlights/Univers typeface.

Some things I don’t like are the leftover Garamond from my circa-1993 identity (let’s just get that out behind the barn and shoot it), the green/gray horizontal lines (they’re falling apart, and they don’t transfer to my print collateral at all), the dead space on the right of the Design section, and the fact that the Scout and Log sections don’t live well with the other sections.