Work is finally starting to settle down and I have a few moments to post here. Apple announced the mac mini while I was too busy to comment. I love the thing. We got one in at work immediately and I’ve had a chance to tinker with it a good bit. I’m going to dump linux as my hosting environment at home and swap over to OS X, after about 6 years on the same hardy little linux box. I’m also going to switch over from winamp to itunes for managing my music collection. That’s the cool news. The bad news is this will delay me fixing my weblog such that comments work again. I’m going to wait to pick up the mini until after the next OS X revision (Tiger) ships, presumably sometime before the end of March. I have to hand it to Apple, they’re really firing on all cylinders right now. Most folks didn’t notice but they’ve grown back to the annual revenue they were seeing at the height of their success during the last 2 quarters. If they keep it up for the next 2 quarters they will have their largest annual revenue ever. It’s well deserved. I love my ibook after having loathed the last one, the mini is just brilliant (yeah, it’s the Cube again, just rationally priced this time), and they’re the only company to really figure out how to handle digital music and DRM that works for both consumers and the content companies. Want to lay odds on the mini being the gateway device to them making the same deals with hollywood they have with the music industries? I’m not sure but I sure hope it turns out to be true.