I’m really loving Apple, today.

I never thought I’d get so excited about an official firmware update, but version 1.5 for my second generation iPod is terrific. The fact that you can configure what appears on the top level menu is great. I have trouble getting certain kinds of calendar items to show up on my iPod, and some of my contacts come out funny, so I ditched “Extras”, but put the clock at the top menu, since I use it all the time. I also only use “Albums” and “Playlists” for browsing my music collection, so I put them right at the top menu, and hid everything else. Now that I walk to work, its a pain digging through a huge collection. Apple’s new firmware moves the stuff I use up about two-clicks.

The rest of my Apple love is dedicated to the creaky G4 sitting in a closet at home. I pulled a couple of 20G hard drives out of storage yesterday, along with a gig of old PC100 RAM. A quick test of my work machine confirms that these guys are happy to boot with no display, keyboard or mouse, and OSXVNC is up and ready to serve a desktop in about a minute. I should be able to stick a headless G4 on my home network with no trouble!